What to Know About U.S. Military Support for Israel’s Gaza Offensive
As Israel races through its stockpiles of ammunition and air defense interceptors, it will be heavily dependent on longstanding U.S. support to replenish its stockpiles. The U.S. has promised to surge its military support for Israel, even as criticisms mount over the Biden administration’s failure to prevent the biggest recipient of U.S. military aid from causing significant civilian casualties in its offensive.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 Days after Hamas's attack on October 7th, I came to Israel, followed soon thereafter
00:06 by President Biden, to make clear that as long as the United States stands, Israel will
00:13 never stand alone.
00:16 Today, in my fourth visit to Israel since October 7th, I reiterated that in all my discussions
00:23 with Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Herzog, the Security Cabinet.
00:28 I reiterated and made clear our support for Israel's right to defend itself, indeed its
00:34 obligation to defend itself.
00:36 That includes through the additional assistance that we've worked with Congress and we're
00:40 working with Congress now to provide for Israel's defense, as well as for urgent humanitarian
00:45 needs in Gaza.
00:47 This right to self-defense, indeed this obligation to self-defense, belongs to every nation.
00:54 No country could or should tolerate the slaughter of innocents.
01:02 You heard me speak to some of the stories that Israelis have experienced on October
01:12 7th.
01:13 Today, we saw additional images, additional footage collected by the Israeli Government
01:22 from video cameras, some the terrorists, some others in communities that were attacked.
01:36 It remains almost beyond the human capacity to process, to digest.
01:44 I saw, for example, a family on a kibbutz, a father, two young boys, maybe 10, 11 years
01:53 old, grabbing them, pulling them out of their living room, going through their very small
02:01 backyard and into a shelter, followed seconds later by a terrorist who throws a grenade
02:10 into that small shelter.
02:13 And then as the father comes staggering out, shoots him down.
02:18 And then the boys come out and they run into their house.
02:25 And the camera in the house is filming everything.
02:28 And they're crying.
02:30 Where's daddy?
02:32 One says.
02:33 The other says, they killed daddy.
02:36 Where's my mommy?
02:38 And then the terrorist comes in and casually opens the refrigerator and starts to eat from
02:43 it.
02:46 That's what we're dealing with.
02:46 [BLANK_AUDIO]