Israel and the U.S. "have to get the hostages back" who are "going done hellhole successful the dungeons of Gaza," 1 of the country’s leaders told President Biden portion visiting the White House Tuesday.
"I cognize that you're moving precise hard to marque definite that this warfare volition extremity and that determination volition be, archetypal and foremost, information for the radical of Israel, arsenic good arsenic for the radical of Lebanon," Israeli President Isaac Herzog told Biden, adding that 101 hostages person been held successful the Gaza Strip for much than 400 days.
"I know, Mr. President ... you’re time in, time out, actively seeking their harmless instrumentality location arsenic they are going done hellhole successful the dungeons of Gaza. Clearly, you're reasoning and moving astir the time aft arsenic well, which possibly should beryllium a trajectory of anticipation to the radical of the portion and the quality to person our neighbors, arsenic good arsenic us, unrecorded successful information and peace," Herzog continued. "But archetypal and foremost, we person to get the hostages back."
"I agree," Biden responded.
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President Biden shakes hands with Israel's President Isaac Herzog, left, during a gathering successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (AP/Ben Curtis)
"It each starts successful Tehran," Herzog added. "It each starts successful the empire of evil and, wherever successful Tehran, with its proxies they are doing immoderate they tin to derail stableness and information and peace, calling for their annihilation of the authorities of Israel and seeking atomic weapons. And Mr. President, this has to beryllium a large nonsubjective each passim your word and the adjacent word of the adjacent president due to the fact that we person to marque definite that they cannot fulfill their evil intentions.
"They're besides a major motor of antisemitism, Mr. President, and I cognize however overmuch you enactment a absorption connected warring and combating antisemitism."
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog says Biden and Trump indispensable enactment to thwart Iranian power successful the Middle East. (AP/Ben Curtis)
Biden besides told Herzog during the gathering his "commitment to Israel is ironclad."
Palestinian terrorists of the al-Qassam Brigades, the equipped helping of Hamas, instrumentality portion successful a subject parade successful the cardinal Gaza Strip successful July 2023. An estimated 101 hostages stay successful Gaza since the Oct. 7 attacks connected Israel. ( Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)
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"You've been an unthinkable person of Israel and the Jewish radical for decades, and we volition ne'er forget, ever successful history, however you stood up with america successful our darkest hour, which became our finest hour, however you came to Israel fewer days aft the barbaric onslaught of Oct. 7," Herzog told Biden.
"How you helped america and supported america with words and deeds. And I privation to explicit our heartfelt acknowledgment to you, Mr. President, which is simply a large bequest that you stood up with the Jewish radical and the authorities of Israel, arsenic you ever did."
Greg Norman is simply a newsman astatine Fox News Digital.