President Joe Biden threatened to pull support for Israel unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepts an “immediate ceasefire” and takes steps to curb civilian casualties in Gaza.
The demand, made in a Thursday phone call with the Israeli leader — their first since Israel Defense Forces bombed a humanitarian convoy, killing seven World Central Kitchen aid workers — marks a dramatic escalation in the president’s posture toward the Jewish state.
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