JD Vance slams Biden's 'weak little bombing runs' against Iran, vows to deepen support for Israel

Ohio Senator JD Vance says US President Joe Biden’s policies are prolonging the Gaza war, saying that a lack of US support for Israel was the reason fighting in the besieged enclave has not ended.

In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News, Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate provided what may be the clearest explanation yet of how the former president’s America First foreign policy would apply to Israel’s war on Gaza.

“Joe Biden has done nothing to help our ally Israel. Joe Biden has made it harder and harder for Israel to win that war. He has prolonged the war to take out Hamas,” Vance told Fox News, reiterating a view that has been expressed within Israel that the Biden administration is micromanaging Israel’s offensive, preventing it from attacking the Gaza Strip more forcefully.

Israel has conducted widespread bombing across the enclave and has killed at least 38,664 Palestinians in its response to Hamas’s 7 October attack on southern Israel, according to the Palestinian health ministry.