Biden asks reporter if she can be 'hit on the head' in bewildering response to Israel hostage question

President Joe Biden chided a newsman who asked him if helium could get a hostage woody completed befoe helium leaves office, asking her if she could 'get deed successful the head' by a camera.

Neria Kraus, a newsman for News Israel 13, tweeted a video of her enactment with the president, which came successful the Oval Office Tuesday during his gathering with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

'Do you deliberation you tin get a hostage woody by the extremity of your term?,' she asked him, citing the 101 hostages inactive being held successful Gaza.

Biden, referring to the twelve TV cameramen and photographers successful the country with her, responded: 'Do you deliberation that you tin get deed successful the caput by the camera down you?'

Biden past looked down astatine his notes and began his introductory remarks to Herzog. 

It's unclear however to construe his response.

Biden, successful the past, has said the merchandise of the hostages is simply a apical priority. But helium lone has a fewer months near successful the White House earlier Trump takes the oath of bureau connected January 20, 2025.

The 2 presidents were expected to sermon the warfare successful Gaza during their meeting. 

The Biden medication besides wants Israel to summation the travel of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, where 43,665 person died successful the war; 103,076 person been injured; and thousands of civilians are present refugees.

The UN alleviation and works bureau warned that already debased levels of assistance trickling into Gaza had dwindled further, with the concern successful the northbound of the territory described arsenic 'catastrophic.'  

Biden has been trying to garner a cease-fire woody successful Gaza earlier President-elect Trump takes office.

While successful Washington D.C., Herzog volition besides conscionable with Rep. Elise Stefanik -- whom Trump has chosen to service arsenic the adjacent U.S. ambassador to the United Nations -- and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime Trump state and adviser.

Israel has already reached retired to the president-elect. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said helium had spoken with Trump 3 times since the Nov. 5th election.

Other than his snappy response, Biden didn't reply immoderate different questions from reporters successful the country and helium fto Herzog bash the bulk of the talking.

The Israeli president didn't mince words. He called Iran an 'evil empire' and said they are a 'major motor of antisemitism.'

He brought President Biden a gift, an artifact from the ft of Temple Mount successful Jerusalem that has the connection 'Joseph' connected it.

President Isaac Herzog is the member of Michael Herzog, who has been serving arsenic Israel's Ambassador to the United States since November 2021.