Trump accuses Biden of abandoning Israel, supporting Hamas

When Joe Biden threatened to halt the US military’s supply to Israel while the country fights the Palestinian organization in Gaza on Thursday, Donald Trump accused the president of supporting Hamas and referred to his actions as “disgraceful.”

In his most forthright warning to date over the effects of the war on civilians, Biden threatened to stop supplying weapons on Wednesday if Israel continued with its long-threatening Rafah ground offensive.

“Crooked Joe is taking the side of these terrorists, just like he has sided with the Radical Mobs taking over our college campuses,” Trump posted on his Truth Social network, referring to the protests against the war that have spread across US universities.

Speaking later to reporters outside the courtroom before entering his hush money trial in New York, Trump said that “what Biden is doing with respect to Israel is disgraceful.”

“He’s totally abandoned Israel and nobody can believe it,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who will challenge Biden in the November election, said.

In response to mounting pressure from the left wing of his own party to restrict the flow of weapons, Biden stopped the delivery of 1,800 2,000-pound (907 kilogram) and 1,700 500-pound bombs last week.

Smaller measures to express dissatisfaction with Israel have also been done by his government in the past, such as penalties against radical settlers and approval of a UN Security Council resolution in favor of a ceasefire.

More than 1,170 individuals, primarily civilians, lost their lives in Hamas’s historic onslaught on Israel on October 7, which marked the start of the Gaza conflict, according to Israeli government statistics.

In retaliation, Israel promised to destroy Hamas and release the prisoners. According to the health ministry of the Hamas-run region, it started a military offensive that has killed over 3,900 people in Gaza, the majority of them were women and children.