Biden Leaves Israel After Wartime Visit | VOA News

U.S. President Joe Biden departed Israel Wednesday, after a wartime visit to show solidarity and confer with Israeli leaders on the spiraling Gaza conflict.

Showing support for its longtime ally, Biden appeared to side with Israel, which denied being at fault and said an errant rocket fired by the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad hit the hospital site.

“I was deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion of the hospital in Gaza yesterday, and based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not – not you. But there's a lot of people out there not sure, so we’ve got a lot—we’ve got to overcome a lot of things,” Biden told Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they began their bilateral meeting.

“Americans are grieving with you, they really are. And Americans are worried,” he added. “Because we know this is not an easy field to navigate, what you have to do.