Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, called US President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening (10 October) to thank him for his “continued and unequivocal support”.
In a video released by the Israeli government, Mr Netanyahu is heard describing Saturday’s incursion by Hamas as “savagery I can say we have not seen since the Holocaust”.
“We had hundreds massacred, families wiped out in their beds, in their homes, women brutally raped and murdered, over a hundred kidnapped, including children. And since we last spoke, the extent of this evil, it’s only gotten worse,” he told Mr Biden.