{"id":26430,"date":"2024-04-10T06:04:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gaza-war-youre-making-a-mistake-joe-biden-tells-netanyahu\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T06:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T06:04:23","slug":"gaza-war-youre-making-a-mistake-joe-biden-tells-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gaza-war-youre-making-a-mistake-joe-biden-tells-netanyahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza war: You\u2019re making a mistake \u2013 Joe Biden tells Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>US president, Joe Biden has told Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu that his approach on Gaza was a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The President further urged Israel to call for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>It happened to be some of Biden\u2019s strongest criticism yet of Netanyahu amid growing tensions over the civilian death toll from Israel\u2019s war on Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what he\u2019s doing is a mistake. I don\u2019t agree with his approach,\u201d Biden told Univision, a US Spanish-language TV network, when asked about Netanyahu\u2019s handling of the war.<\/p>\n<p>The US number one citizen reiterated that an Israeli drone attack last week that killed seven aid workers from a US-based charity in Gaza \u2013 and sparked a tense phone call with Netanyahu \u2013 was \u201coutrageous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, total access to all food and medicine going into the country,\u201d said Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s earlier remarks was that the burden lay with Hamas to agree to a truce and hostage release deal.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also stepped up pressure on Israel to let more aid into devastated Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no excuse to not provide for the medical and the food needs of those people. It should be done now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza war: You\u2019re making a mistake \u2013 Joe Biden tells Netanyahu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president, Joe Biden has told Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu that his approach on Gaza was a \u201cmistake.\u201d The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1420,13664,13156,15],"tags":[11831,1424,5430,13157,180,1422],"class_list":["post-26430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaza-war","category-joe-biden","category-netanyahu","category-news","tag-biden","tag-gaza","tag-joe","tag-netanyahu","tag-news","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}