President Joe Biden arrived in Israel Wednesday, vowing solidarity in its war against Hamas and saying that the explosion that killed a massive number of Palestinians at a Gaza hospital appeared to have been caused by a Palestinian group, Reuters reports. Gaza officials accused Israel of launching an air strike, which they projected killed as many as 500 people, on the Al-Ahli Arabi hospital. Israel denied responsibility, blaming a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, which also denied responsibility.
"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 you," Biden said, speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "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," he added. "The world is looking. Israel has a value set like the United States does, and other democracies, and they are looking to see what we are going to do." Biden later attributed his confidence about who is to blame on "data I was shown by my Defense Department."
