Israel has the right to defend itself and its people, full stop.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was at the White House for meetings and spoke to Israel's president and foreign minister, while Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with Israel's defense minister.
But given the scale of the Hamas attacks and Israel's military response, the officials said they were not optimistic about any short-term solution.
Zelenskyy, who is Jewish and had relatives who died in the Holocaust, said “Israel’s right to self-defense cannot be questioned."
In Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps, hundreds took to the streets to celebrate the operation by Hamas.
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