Harris tells Netanyahu of 'serious concern' about humanitarian situation in Gaza

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Netanyahu's first visit to the White House since 2020 comes a day after he gave a fiery speech to Congress in which he vowed "total victory" against Hamas and denounced American opponents of the war in Gaza as "idiots".

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00:00There have been anti-war protests outside the White House as Israel's Prime Minister

00:06Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.

00:11Harris told Netanyahu of her serious concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza after

00:17nine months of war between Israel and Hamas.

00:22The images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes

00:29displaced for the second, third or fourth time.

00:34We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies.

00:38We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering.

00:43And I will not be silent.

00:46Netanyahu's first White House visit since 2020 comes a day after he gave a fiery speech

00:51to Congress in which he vowed total victory against Hamas and denounced American opponents

00:56of the war in Gaza as idiots.

01:00Netanyahu's talks with Harris, who is widely expected to be the Democrat presidential nominee

01:06after Joe Biden announced earlier this week he wouldn't run for office again, came after

01:10a meeting with the outgoing president earlier on Thursday.

01:14Eighty-one-year-old Biden is pressing to get Israel and Hamas to sign a ceasefire deal

01:19before he steps down in January.

01:21White House officials say ceasefire negotiations, which have stumbled along for weeks, are in

01:26the closing stages, but there are still issues that need to be resolved.

01:31Meanwhile, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called the humanitarian

01:37situation in Gaza a total disaster.

01:42We are in a situation of total lawlessness, a situation where the law and order has completely

01:50disappeared.

01:51Nobody is in charge of security anywhere in the area of Gaza.

01:56So we see convoys looted at any moment.

02:01Since the war against Hamas started last year, more than 39,000 Palestinians have been killed

02:06in Gaza and the death toll in Israel is 1,200.

02:11Dozens of Israeli hostages are still being held by Hamas in Gaza after being taken captive

02:16on October 7.

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