Biden claims that Hamas' sole purpose is to "kill Jews": "This is an act of pure evil"

Biden affirms that the US is "ready" to increase aid to Israel

Hamas claims that Biden is lying and accuses him of favoring "the most horrific, racist and hateful occupation known in the Middle East"

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, assured this Tuesday that the sole purpose of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is to "kill Jews." "This is an act of pure evil," the US president stressed regarding the attack launched on Saturday by the Palestinian group against Israeli territory.

"Women raped, assaulted, displayed as trophies. Families hid in terror for hours and hours, desperately trying to keep their children quiet so as not to attract attention. And thousands of wounded, alive, but carrying with them the holes of bullets and shrapnel ", he stated.

Likewise, Biden has highlighted that, "like any nation in the world", Israel "has the right to respond" to the "ferocious" attacks carried out by the "bloody hands" of the members of the Palestinian group, as reported by CNN. .

"There is no justification for terrorism. There is no excuse. Hamas does not defend the right of the Palestinian people to dignity and self-determination," Biden said, adding that the attack is reminiscent of the "worst" actions carried out by the Islamic State, according to him. picked up by NBC News.

The US president has also assured that Washington has reinforced its military forces in the Middle East region, while it has also increased assistance to Israel with ammunition and material for the 'Iron Dome' anti-aircraft system.

"We are going to ensure that Israel is not left without these critical assets to defend its cities and its citizens," he stressed, adding that Washington is "ready" to incorporate new assets "if necessary", referring to the deployment, announced on Sunday , from the aircraft carrier 'USS Gerald R. Ford'.

Likewise, Biden has assured that security has been increased in buildings used by the Jewish community in the United States. "The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation work closely with state and local authorities and Jewish community partners to identify and disrupt any insider threats," she added.

HAMAS RESPONSE

For its part, Hamas has called Biden's statements "fallacies", whom they have accused of being "in favor of the most horrific, racist and hateful occupation known in the Middle East."

"We strongly reject and denounce the inflammatory statements of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, which coincided with the continuation and escalation of the barbaric Zionist aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the rest of our occupied territories," he added. the militia in a statement published on its Telegram channel.

Furthermore, Hamas has considered that Biden is trying to "cover up the criminality and terrorism of the Zionist Government" because he has not dedicated words to the "ugliest forms of collective punishment of more than two million Palestinians in Gaza" and the "massacres against children, women and defenseless elderly".

In that sense, he explained that the operation launched against southern Israel last Saturday has been directed "against the horrific Zionist occupation" and to "defend the people and their right to freedom and self-determination." Finally, the movement has asked the US Government to review "its tendentious position."