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00:00Israel's Prime Minister is continuing his tour of the US. He met with President Biden
00:06and Kamala Harris on Thursday as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the White House
00:12condemning his arrival. But unlike Joe Biden, the US Vice President and presidential candidate
00:18adopted a firmer tone with Netanyahu when discussing Israel's war in Gaza.
00:25What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating. The images of dead
00:30children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second,
00:39third or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot
00:46allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and I will not be silent.
00:53Kamala Harris pushed Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a Gaza ceasefire deal that could end
00:58the suffering of the Palestinian people. There has been hopeful movement in the talks to
01:02secure an agreement on this deal. And as I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it is
01:08time to get this deal done. A contrasting scene to Joe Biden's meeting where the two
01:14leaders celebrated the US's long-term loyalty to Israel. Mr President, we've known each
01:18other for 40 years and you've known every Israeli Prime Minister for 50 years, from
01:24Golda Meir. So from a proud Jewish Zionist to a proud Irish-American Zionist, I want
01:32to thank you for 50 years of public service and 50 years of support for the state of Israel.
01:38Netanyahu is heading to Florida this Friday where he will meet Donald Trump. The former
01:43President and Republican presidential candidate has long supported Israel and its Prime Minister.
01:48The Republican members of parliament cheered Benjamin Netanyahu during his high-profile
01:53speech in Congress on Wednesday, whilst 60 Democrats boycotted him. Though Trump had
01:59broken off his relations with Netanyahu back in 2021, the Israeli Prime Minister is trying
02:04to rekindle the old bond between them. But Donald Trump is already tempering his stance,
02:10calling on Israel to quickly end the fighting in Gaza.