Harris tells Netanyahu of 'serious concern' about humanitarian situation in Gaza
Netanyahu's first visit to the White House since 2020 comes a day after he gave a fiery speech to Congress in which he vowed "total victory" against Hamas and denounced American opponents of the war in Gaza as "idiots".
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00:00There have been anti-war protests outside the White House as Israel's Prime Minister
00:06Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:11Harris told Netanyahu of her serious concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza after
00:17nine months of war between Israel and Hamas.
00:22The images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes
00:29displaced for the second, third or fourth time.
00:34We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies.
00:38We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering.
00:43And I will not be silent.
00:46Netanyahu's first White House visit since 2020 comes a day after he gave a fiery speech
00:51to Congress in which he vowed total victory against Hamas and denounced American opponents
00:56of the war in Gaza as idiots.
01:00Netanyahu's talks with Harris, who is widely expected to be the Democrat presidential nominee
01:06after Joe Biden announced earlier this week he wouldn't run for office again, came after
01:10a meeting with the outgoing president earlier on Thursday.
01:14Eighty-one-year-old Biden is pressing to get Israel and Hamas to sign a ceasefire deal
01:19before he steps down in January.
01:21White House officials say ceasefire negotiations, which have stumbled along for weeks, are in
01:26the closing stages, but there are still issues that need to be resolved.
01:31Meanwhile, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called the humanitarian
01:37situation in Gaza a total disaster.
01:42We are in a situation of total lawlessness, a situation where the law and order has completely
01:50disappeared.
01:51Nobody is in charge of security anywhere in the area of Gaza.
01:56So we see convoys looted at any moment.
02:01Since the war against Hamas started last year, more than 39,000 Palestinians have been killed
02:06in Gaza and the death toll in Israel is 1,200.
02:11Dozens of Israeli hostages are still being held by Hamas in Gaza after being taken captive
02:16on October 7.