WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden discussed developments in Israel and Gaza strip with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Friday, the White House said, as the Israeli military continued a major push in the southern Gaza Strip.
No further details were immediately available, but the White House said it would issue a fuller statement later in the day. Biden’s call with Israeli president came as Red Crescent officials reported “intense gunfire from the Israeli drones targeting citizens at Al-Amal Hospital” in Khan Yunis, the main city in the southern part of the strip.
Israel started a major new advance in Khan Younis this week to capture the city, which it says is now the primary base of the Hamas fighters.
The health ministry in Gaza said 142 Palestinians had been killed and 278 injured in Gaza strip the past 24 hours, raising the death toll from more than three months of war to 24,762. Palestinian health officials further said that a Palestinian-American teenager was killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank on Friday.
