“Shaken” by an Israeli airstrike earlier this week that killed seven food aid workers in Gaza, President Joe Biden on Thursday pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for major tactical changes in his war with Hamas, a senior White House official said.
The U.S. president has been feeling “growing frustration” in recent weeks as Netanyahu and his government have turned away humanitarian aid and continued to hammer civilian targets in Rafah, where pro-Palestinian activists say more than 1 million refugees are holed up, said White House national security communications adviser John Kirby.
The Biden-Netanyahu rift, amid calls from some of Biden’s Democratic allies to slap new conditions on American military aid to the Jewish state, threatens to upend a decadelong diplomatic partnership.
