"So I what I’m 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,” Biden said.
'Never in the history of warfare have I seen such an effort by one of the protagonists in a war to lessen the effect on the population of the other side,' Graham said.
'Israel allows extensive humanitarian aid into Gaza ... despite Hamas violently disrupting aid convoys and UNRWA’s collaboration with them, we persist.'
'If we stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved, this means that Israel will have lost the war, and this we will not allow. Therefore, we cannot, and will not, succumb to this pressure.'
' ... We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.'
As the IDF prepares to enter Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in the Strip, Biden has ramped up his criticism, going as far as characterizing the operation as 'over the top.'
Israel agreed to the current 6-week ceasefire and hostage release deal, but Hamas refused anything short of a permanent cessation in the IDF's military operations.
The names of the fallen soldiers are 19-year-old Sergeant Dolev Malka from Shlomi, 19-year-old Sergeant Afik Tery from Rehovot, and 20-year-old Sergeant Inon Yitzhak from Mitzpe Ramon.
The Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared, 'Two hundred terrorists have surrendered at Nasser Hospital; dozens have surrendered at the Amal Hospital.'
He strongly rejected the terror group's terms and said Israel would agree to nothing less than a 'total victory' over Hamas which he said could be achieved 'within months.'
Every significant war and civil war in the region has had a much higher death toll than the Israel-Hamas war, including the Iraq-Iran War with an estimated 500,000 to 2 million deaths.