US President Joe Biden said that one of the reasons for Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 was the desire to stop the Jewish state’s rapprochement with Saudi Arabia. The American leader made this statement at the conference of mayors of American cities. TASS.
“I was going to make a deal with Saudi Arabia and I wanted to normalize relations. That is, fully normalize relations with Israel and include the other six Arab countries to change the dynamics in the region,” the politician said.
Before that, American television channel NBC reportedIsrael and the Gaza Strip government are negotiating a month-long closure. The condition of the agreement is the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The situation in the Middle East escalated further on October 7, when thousands of armed Hamas supporters entered Israel from the Gaza Strip. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s intervention operation was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector.
Previously Pope Francis statedThat the world is being dragged into war because of the defense industry.