Hamas attack ‘unadulterated evil’, says Joe Biden

Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett pointed to “what you might call hypocrisy on the part of the US president”.

“He talked about the United States in alliance with Israel, saying that the distinction between them and what he called the terrorists is that they believe they uphold the rules of international law.

He said that only terrorists would attack civilians,” she said.

“But that is not entirely accurate because what we’ve seen in recent days is the Israeli military having cut off not only food but electricity and water to the Palestinians in Gaza.

We’ve certainly seen attacks that have been not surgical, but in fact, [hitting] large swathes of apartment complexes that we now have allowed for women, children, [and the] elderly to be caught up in this.”