John Kirby says White House is 'increasingly frustrated' with Israel's ... trends now
National security spokesman John Kirby said the White House is growing 'increasingly frustrated' with Israel's actions in Gaza.
During an appearance on ABC's This Week on Sunday, co-anchor Martha Raddatz noted how President Biden and his Cabinet officials seem to have grown increasingly frustrated with Israel's bloody offensive to eradicate Hamas.
'I'm glad you brought that timeline up because it shows the degree… the growing degree of frustration that we've had with the way these operations are being prosecuted and the way that Israelis are acting on the ground in terms of civilian casualties,' Kirby told Raddatz.
'So we have been increasingly frustrated. And again, that was a core message that the President delivered to Prime Minister Netanyahu in their phone call this… past week… that they've got to do more, they've got to make changes,' he continued.
National security spokesman John Kirby said the White House is growing 'increasingly frustrated' with Israel 's actions in Gaza
Biden faced a revolt from progressives who say he is too supportive of Israel as civilian casualties pile up in Gaza. Criticism of Israel's military campaign swelled this week when an Israeli airstrike killed six workers with the World Central Kitchen, one being an American, and their Palestinian driver as they were leaving a warehouse in Central Gaza.
The workers, delivering food aid in Gaza, were driving in a 'de-conflicted zone' in armored, labeled cars that were struck by an Israeli rocket.
On Friday a group of more than 30 House Democrats including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded Biden halt the transfer of weapons to Israel.
'In light of the recent strike against aid workers and the ever-worsening humanitarian crisis, we believe it is unjustifiable to approve these weapons transfers,' read the letter.
The Palestinian death toll since October has surpassed 33,000.
Last week Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., blasted Biden for paying only lip service to the Palestinian cause.
'As you know there have been a lot of statements. I mean, one day 'I'm angry,' the president is angry at Netanyahu. The next day he's 'very angry' and the next day he's 'very very angry.' So what?' the Vermont progressive said of the White House response.
Palestinian elderly woman pushes a wheelchair past rubble in Khan Yunis on
