The heinous Terror Attack in israel that killed more than 1,400 people. The crisis that continues to threaten the innocent lives of hundreds of hostages and endanger the entire civilian population of gaza. In a spiraling humanitarian calamity. In the next hour President Joe Biden will depart for israel for what could be one of the most important trips of his presidency. His visit is of course a show of support for an ally grieving the murder of more jewish lives than at any time since the holocaust. But also bracing for a deadly and dangerous point in this conflict with hamas. It is also a high wire diplomatic endeavor with nothing less than the possibility of a major regional conflict breaking out looming over every fraught development and every development in the last few hours has been that, fraught. Its also added fuel to a volatile situation. There are reports of a Deadly Strike on a hospital in gaza. Now, the hospital was filled, of course, with the wounded and with palestinians
we ve had weeks of aid organizations sounding the alarm about gaza. and so you ve now said that humanitarian pauses and fighting aren t enough and there needs to be work towards a ceasefire. are you disappointed that other world leaders aren tjoining you in that call like the us or the uk? no, i hope they will. and let s be clear. i mean, i was one of the first leaders to call the prime minister and president of israel after the terrorist attack the 7th of october. we clearly condemn this terrorist attack and terrorist group and recognize the right of israel to protect itself and react. but day one, we say that this reaction and the fight against terrorism, because it is led by a democracy should be compliant with international rules of war and humanitarian international law. and day after day, what we saw is a permanent bombing of civilians in gaza. we worked very hard to try to protect people, our people there, because we lost more than a0 french nationals and we still have