The president of the United States, Joe Biden, promised this Tuesday that his country will give Israel everything you need to defend yourself in response to the attack carried out on Saturday by Hamas and which has caused an escalation of violence with hundreds of fatalities on both sides.

In a speech at the White House, Biden further confirmed that There are American citizens among those kidnapped by Hamas and raised to 14 the number of nationals from his country who have died in Israel.

“We must be absolutely clear: we stand with Israel,” said the president in this speech in which he was flanked by the US Vice President, Kamala Harris, and the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.

“We will make sure that “Israel has what it needs to take care of its citizens and defend itself to respond to this attack,” emphasized Biden, who assured that Washington will continue providing to Israel for the duration of its war against Hamas.

Specifically, he explained that the US is already sending Israel ammunition and the components you need for the Iron Dome air defense systemwhich Israel used these days against missiles launched from the Gaza Strip.

Furthermore, the United States has strengthened its military presence in the region through the deployment of combat aircraftincluding the sophisticated F-35 and F-15, and the sending to the Eastern Mediterranean of a group of aircraft carriers and destroyers, among which the USS Normandy stands out, equipped with anti-aircraft, anti-surface and anti-submarine missiles.

Biden began his speech Calling Hamas attack an “act of pure evil” and described scenes of horror with young people massacred while attending a music festival and parents having to hide with their children while Hamas militants roamed Israeli cities near the border with the Gaza Strip.

He also took the opportunity to criticize the methods of Hamas and accuse him of using civilians in the Gaz Stripa, where 2.3 million people live, as a shield against Israel.

“There is no justification for terrorism. There is no excuse. Hamas does not defend the right of the Palestinian people to dignity and self-determination. Their stated goal in relation to the state of Israel is to kill the Jewish people. “They use Palestinian civilians as human shields,” the president said.

Just before this speechBiden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to whom he communicated that the US response will be “rapid, decisive and overwhelming” and to whom he reiterated that democracies like the United States and Israel are safer when they act in accordance with the rule of law.

Israel responded to the Hamas attack by declaring a state of war on Saturday and bombing the Gaza Strip, marking the worst escalation in decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The total number of fatalities exceeds 1,700 people. On the Israeli side, the death toll rises to 900 and more than 100 people have been kidnapped.s and taken to Gaza.

On the Palestinian side, Israel’s aerial bombardments in Gaza have left 830 dead, to which are added the 1,500 Hamas militiamen who have died in Israeli territory after the Army recovered the cities they had taken in recent days.