Biden Supports Israeli "Self Defense", IDF Takes Out Key Hamas Senior Commanders

Israel-Palestine Conflict News:

• Overnight Biden said Israel "has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory,"
  • conveying his unwavering support for Israel's security during a phone call with Israel's Netenyahu. Says he hopes the conflict will be closing down sooner than later"
• Despite diplomatic efforts, Hamas continued to launch rockets from the Gaza Strip overnight towards Israel, whose security cabinet approved further airstrikes while riots/clashes between Israeli and Arab communities in mixes Israeli cities intensified overnight.
  • Israel's military said it killed 14 senior Hamas commanders and officials.
  • Palestinian health officials say 65 people have died since Monday, including 16 children. Six Israelis, including one child, have died in Hamas rocket attacks
• PM Netanyahu, speaking late last night, said he planned to send in military forces to help police maintain order in cities ruptured by violence.
  • "Nothing can justify an Arab mob assaulting Jews, and nothing can justify a Jewish mob assaulting Arabs." Israeli military says 1,600 Hamas rockets have been fired since Monday
• Israel has amassed combat troops along the Gaza border and is in "various stages of preparing ground operations," while Hamas launched missiles at Southern Israel early in the morning - military spokesman
• UK Foreign Office said Israel has a "legitimate right to defend itself" but must do so "proportionately.
  • There is no legitimate reason for these [Hamas] rockets to be fired, and we have demanded that they cease doing that – LBC News