President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that Israel was dropping worldwide help as a result of of its “indiscriminate bombing” of Gaza, talking out in unusually robust language because the United Nations neared a vote on demanding a cease-fire within the Israel-Hamas struggle.

“Israel’s security can rest on the United States, but right now it has more than the United States. It has the European Union, it has Europe, it has most of the world supporting them,” Biden mentioned to donors throughout a fundraiser Tuesday.

“They’re starting to lose that support by indiscriminate bombing that takes place,” he mentioned.

The president mentioned he thought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu understood, however he wasn’t so positive concerning the Israeli struggle cupboard. Israeli forces have been finishing up punishing strikes throughout Gaza, crushing Palestinians in properties because the army presses forward with an offensive that officers say might go on for weeks or months.

Israeli protection minister Yoav Gallant has resisted worldwide requires a cease-fire.

Biden supplied a harder-than-usual assessment of Israel’s decisions for the reason that Oct. 7 assault by Hamas and the strikes by his conservative authorities. Meanwhile, Biden’s high nationwide safety adviser, Jake Sullivan, is heading to Israel this week to seek the advice of immediately about timetables for ending main fight.

The president additionally renewed his warnings that Israel shouldn’t make the identical errors of overreaction that the U.S. did following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults.

He recounted a acquainted anecdote about inscribing on a photograph with Netanyahu many years in the past, “Bibi, I don’t agree with a damn thing you have to say.” This time, the president added to his retelling of the story: “That remains to be the case.”

The 2024 marketing campaign fundraiser was half of a gathering of Jewish donors, many of whom attended a White House Hanukkah reception on Monday night; Biden’s fundraisers are open to some reporters on the situation that no audio or video be shared.

His rhetoric to donors tracks his extra candid and personal messaging to Netanyahu on their frequent calls, in line with two White House officers, the place he reasserts U.S. help for Israel earlier than pushing for Israel to do extra to assist civilians in Gaza.

“Israel has a tough decision to make. Bibi has a tough decision to make. There’s no question about the need to take on Hamas. There’s no question about that. None. Zero,” Biden mentioned. But he added, of Israel’s chief, “I think he has to change his government. His government in Israel is making it very difficult.”

Biden particularly referred to as out Itamar Ben-Gvir, the chief of a far-right Israeli get together and the minister of nationwide safety in Netanyahu’s governing coalition, who opposes a two-state resolution and has referred to as for Israel to reassert management over all of the West Bank and Gaza. Ben-Gvir sits on Israel’s safety cupboard, however isn’t a member of the nation’s three-person struggle cupboard.

The feedback prompted responses from each the Israeli army and likewise Hamas.

“We know to clarify precisely how we function with precision, based mostly on intelligence, even after we are working on the bottom,” said Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari. “We know how to operate against the Hamas strongholds in such a way that best separates the uninvolved civilians from terrorism targets.”

Asked about Biden’s feedback, a senior Hamas official mentioned in Beirut that “the resistance and the steadfastness of the Palestinian people have made Biden understand that the Israeli military operation is a crazy act.”

“The repercussions (of the war) will be catastrophic on the entity (Israel) and on the results of elections in which Biden might lose his seat in the White House,” Osama Hamdan, member of Hamas’ political bureau mentioned throughout a information convention.

During the fundraiser, Biden mentioned that when he has warned Netanyahu of a loss of worldwide help over the bombing, the Israeli chief has talked about that the U.S. had “carpet-bombed Germany” in World War II and dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.

“That’s why all these institutions were set up after World War II, to see that it didn’t happen again,” he mentioned. “Don’t make the same mistakes we made in 9/11. There’s no reason we had to be in a war in Afghanistan. There’s no reason we had to do so many things that we did.”

The U.N. General Assembly was set to carry a vote Tuesday on a nonbinding decision demanding an instantaneous humanitarian cease-fire, days after the U.S. vetoed a related measure on the U.N. Security Council. The U.Ok abstained from the 13-1 vote, however France and Japan have been amongst these supporting the decision for a cease-fire. Only Security Council resolutions are legally binding underneath the phrases of the worldwide physique’s constitution.

Before Biden’s feedback on the fundraiser, Netanyahu mentioned in a assertion that he appreciated American help and that he’d acquired “full backing for the ground incursion and blocking the international pressure to stop the war.”

“Yes, there is disagreement about ‘the day after Hamas’ and I hope that we will reach agreement here as well. I would like to clarify my position: I will not allow Israel to repeat the mistake of Oslo. Gaza will be neither Hamastan nor Fatahstan.”

Speaking at a discussion board hosted by The Wall Street Journal earlier than both chief’s feedback, Sullivan reiterated the Biden administration’s place that it doesn’t wish to see Israel reoccupy Gaza or additional shrink its already small territory.

The U.S. has repeatedly referred to as for a return of the internationally acknowledged Palestinian Authority and the resumption of peace talks aimed toward establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Sullivan mentioned he would additionally converse to Netanyahu about his latest feedback that Israel Defense Forces would preserve open-ended safety management of Gaza after the struggle ends.

“I will have the opportunity to talk to Prime Minister Netanyahu about what exactly he has in mind with that comment, because that can be interpreted in a number of different ways,” Sullivan mentioned. “But the U.S. position on this is clear.”

Associated Press writers Will Weissert, Zeke Miller in Washington and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed to this report.