French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the escalating conflict and condemned rocket attacks by Hamas. Macron said Israel had the right to defend itself.
Replenishing the Iron Dome missiles
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed the Biden administration on Friday after White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared to sidestep a question on whether the administration would commit to replenishing Israel's Iron Dome missiles, which fired hundreds this week as it defended itself from rocket attacks launched by Palestinians in Gaza.
Cruz, who called on Biden Thursday to replenish the Iron Dome missiles, responded to Psaki's remarks on Twitter, calling her statements "disgraceful.
"Joe Biden must show decisive presidential leadership, including by replenishing Israel's Iron Dome missiles," Cruz tweeted. "This answer is not just completely unacceptable, it's disgraceful."
"We must change course and adopt an evenhanded approach, one that upholds and strengthens international law regarding the protection of civilians, as well as existing U.S. law holding that the provision of U.S. military aid must not enable human rights abuses", he wrote.
"In this moment of crisis, the United States should be urging an immediate cease-fire. We should also understand that, while Hamas firing rockets into Israeli communities is absolutely unacceptable, today's conflict did not begin with those rockets."
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