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Biden unsure if Netanyahu seeking to influence US election by rejecting peace deal
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/4/biden-unsure-if-netanyahu-holding-up-gaza-deal-to-influence-us-election
President Joe Biden says he doesn’t know if Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding up a peace deal in Gaza and Lebanon in order to influence the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election, The Associated Press news agency reports.
Biden was responding to comments made by one of his allies, Senator Chris Murphy, who said this week that he was concerned Netanyahu had little interest in peace, in part because of US politics.
“No administration has helped Israel more than I have,” Biden said Friday. “None. None. None. And I think Bibi [Netanyahu] should remember that. And whether he’s trying to influence the election, I don’t know but I’m not counting on that.”
US confirms ‘US citizen’ killed this week in Lebanon, corrects earlier report
The US State Department has corrected the record and now confirmed that a US citizen was killed in a reported Israeli air strike in Lebanon this week.
US citizen Kamel Ahmad Jawad, from Dearborn, Michigan, was killed in Lebanon in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday, according to his daughter, a friend and the US congresswoman representing his district.
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said earlier this week that it was Washington’s understanding that Jawad was a legal permanent resident, not an American citizen.
On Friday, the State Department corrected its earlier erroneous information.
“We are aware and alarmed of reports of the death of Kamel Jawad, who we have confirmed is a US citizen,” the spokesperson said.
“As we have noted repeatedly, it is a moral and strategic imperative that Israel take all feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm,” he said.
Today, my friend, Kamel Jawad of Dearborn, Michigan was murdered by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon
Israel killed an American citizen with weapons provided by the US government
One of the kindest and most generous humans I ever met
إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون pic.twitter.com/7pxG3m5PqL
— Hamzah Raza (@raza_hamzah) October 1, 2024
Trump says Israel should ‘hit’ Iran’s nuclear facilities
The US Republican Party presidential candidate, Donald Trump, said Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in response to Tehran’s recent missile barrage.
The former president, speaking at a campaign event in North Carolina on Friday, referred to a question posed to US President Joe Biden this week about the possibility of Israel targeting Iran’s nuclear programme.
“When they asked him that question, the answer should have been, hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later,” Trump said.
