Joe Biden Speaks On Israel Occupying Gaza, Stopping Hamas 

United States President, Joe Biden has urged Israel against occupying the Gaza Strip and said the terrorist militant group, Hamas, must be eliminated.

Speaking in an interview with CBS news, Biden said he believes Israel has to go after Hamas because they are a bunch of cowards and extremists.

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“Hamas is a bunch of cowards. They’re hiding behind the civilians. Taking out the extremists is a necessary requirement,” he said.

Asked if Hamas must be eliminated entirely, he said “Yes I do.

“But there needs to be a Palestinian authority, there needs to be a path to a Palestinian state.”

When asked if he would support Israel’s occupation of Gaza, the US president said he thinks “it’d be a big mistake” for Israel to do so.

“Look, what happened in Gaza, in my view, is Hamas, and the extreme elements of Hamas, don’t represent all the Palestinian people. And I think that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza again,” he said.

Israel captured and occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. It withdrew its settlers and troops from Gaza in 2005, before Hamas’ takeover of the strip in 2007.

Speaking in an interview with CNN on Sunday, Michael Herzog, US Israeli ambassador, said his country has no desire to reoccupy the Strip, which is home to some 2.2 million Palestinians.

He said: “And, certainly, we want people to go back to their homes. We’re talking about innocent civilians.

“And we are doing everything we can to keep them out of harm’s way, while Hamas is doing everything it can to keep them in harm’s way. That’s the situation we are at.”

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