President Joe Biden was asked by a reporter in Israel on Wednesday what made him confident that the Israelis weren’t behind the explosion that killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday.

Biden responded that it was “the data I was shown by my Defense Department.”

Two U.S. officials told ABC News the Pentagon independently concluded the Gaza hospital blast was likely caused by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short of its target.

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    1 year ago

    So, why are these people living in a city that belonged to Egypt a few decades ago displaced? What happened? What could have possibly prompted Israel to take that territory? Was there a war or something? Did a group of nations come together to try and kill all Israelis or something?

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      It’s almost like they went through two attempts to end their people in a twenty-ish year period of time.