The Israel-Hamas war|The reactions

Democrats split - Biden pressed about his support for Israel: "Immoral" 

Joe Biden's associates within the Democratic party organization are divided on the issue of Israel and Palestine. 17 percent of employees demanded in a letter on Friday that the president change his stance on the war, according to the Huffington Post.  

 

- The president's 2022 campaign was about the "fight for the soul of the country", but now it seems that instead they are in a fight for their own soul, says an employee within the Democratic Party organization to Axios, and adds:  

 

- I do not understand how you can see the support for the large-scale killing of Palestinians as anything other than immoral. In recent weeks, Biden's policy has been openly attacked by heavy names within the Democrats, who believe that his support for Israel makes the US complicit in attacks on civilians in Gaza. 

 

At the same time, Biden's line is said to have strong support, especially among older Democrats, who believe that Biden shows "moral clarity" in supporting Israel's right to defend itself against terrorists, according to Axios.  

 

Joe Biden's administration has called for a "humanitarian pause" in the fighting in Gaza, something Israel has rejected. 

 

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Blinken calls a Palestinian state "legitimate claim"  

The United States is still working to realize "the Palestinians' legitimate claim to the establishment of a Palestinian state." This is what the country's foreign minister Antony Blinken says during a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, BBC reports. 

 

Blinken met Abbas during a meeting on the West Bank today. Abbas, for his part, is said to have repeated the demand for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza. 

 

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Minister proposed nuclear bomb on Gaza - shut down 

Israel's Cultural Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu has been suspended from participating in government meetings, since he suggested that an atomic bomb could be dropped on the Gaza Strip, writes AFP.  

 

Eliyahu said in a radio interview that he was not entirely satisfied with the scale of Israel's response to the terrorist group Hamas. When asked if he could imagine dropping "some kind of atomic bomb" to kill everyone in the Gaza Strip, he replied: 

 

- It is an alternative.  

 

According to a statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes the comment is "out of touch with reality". Eliyahu later claimed on X that it was a metaphor.

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