Biden-Netanyahu phone call three days after aid worker deaths in Gaza Strip

US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to speak on the phone today, three days after Israeli airstrikes killed foreign aid workers, further deepening the rift in the relationship between the two states, according to others of close allies. “I can confirm that President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu will speak tomorrow,” a US official with knowledge of the matter told AFP on Wednesday when asked about reports. The previous meeting between the two leaders took place on March 18, in an already tense atmosphere. Since then, the differences between the two allies seem to have widened, against the background of the further worsening of the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave which has been bombarded relentlessly for almost six months. Tensions appeared to be escalating in the interim, especially after Washington allowed a UN Security Council vote in late March to pass a resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire”, which although in theory is legally […]
Source: News Beast

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