- By Halimah Olamide
United States President, Joe Biden, has said the State of Israel has the right to respond in equal or more measures to the attacks on it by the Hamas.
Biden, who disclosed his conversation with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the US, if it was in the shoes of Israel would have responded faster and more viciously.
“Like every nation in the world, Israel has a right and a duty to respond to these vicious attacks. I just got off the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and I told him: If the United States experienced what Israel experienced, our response would be swift, decisive, and overwhelming. Terrorists purposefully target and kill civilians. We uphold the laws of war,” Biden revealed through his X handle on Wednesday.
Gaza has come under heavy shelling by Israeli bombers after the Hamas killed Israeli in a calculated attack on Monday.
More than 1000 casualties have been recorded as the war rage on.
There are apprehensions over possible third world war as allies queue behind each of the warring sides.
China, Russia, Iran Afghanistan and others are behind Palestine while the whole of the West led by the United states has thrown weigh behind Israel.