{"id":6424,"date":"2024-03-10T10:50:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/2024\/03\/10\/biden-makes-contradictory-comments-on-gaza-red-line-inmsnbc-interview\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:50:27","slug":"biden-makes-contradictory-comments-on-gaza-red-line-inmsnbc-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/2024\/03\/10\/biden-makes-contradictory-comments-on-gaza-red-line-inmsnbc-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden makes contradictory comments on Gaza ‘red line’ in\nMSNBC interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said in an MSNBC interview on Saturday that Israel\u2019s threatened invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza would be his \u201cred line\u201d for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but then immediately backtracked, saying there was no red line and “I\u2019m never going to leave Israel.”<\/p>\n

In a somewhat contradictory exchange with his interviewer, Biden said “they cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead as a consequence of going after” Hamas militants.<\/p>\n

Biden and his aides have urged Netanyahu in strong terms not to launch a major offensive in Rafah until Israel crafts a plan for mass evacuation of civilians from the last area of Gaza it has not yet invaded with ground forces. More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are sheltering in the Rafah area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s other ways to deal, to get to, to deal with … the trauma caused by Hamas,\u201d Biden said, referring to the Islamist group\u2019s Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed.<\/p>\n

Asked whether an Israeli invasion of Rafah would be a red line for him with Netanyahu, Biden said: “It is a red line but I’m never going to leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical. So there’s no red line (in which) I’m going to cut off all weapons so they don’t have the Iron Dome to protect them.”<\/p>\n

Biden insisted, however, that Netanyahu “must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken.”<\/p>\n

He reiterated his call for a six-week ceasefire for hostage releases and aid delivery, though negotiations appear to have stalled.<\/p>\n

Asked whether a ceasefire could still be reached before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins on or around March 10, Biden said: “I think it’s always possible. I never give up on that.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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