Biden condemns Hamas for ‘raping women and parading them as trophies’ | US News

US President Joe Biden condemned the Palestinian militant group Hamas for raping Israeli women and parading them as ‘trophies’.

Biden called Hamas’ surprise attack on the Gaza Strip area that has prompted a four-day all-out war ‘an act of sheer evil’.

The president ripped Hamas for existing with the sole purpose ‘to kill Jews’.

‘Parents butchered trying to protect their children,’ said Biden from the White House on Tuesday afternoon.

‘Entire families slain. Young people massacred attending a musical festival celebrating peace.

‘Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies.’

Biden provided an update on the death toll of Americans caught in the bloodshed – at least 14, up from 11 the prior day. The surprise attack on Saturday killed about 1,000 people and was ‘pure unadulterated evil’, he said.

He added, ‘we now know that American citizens are among those being held by Hamas’, but did not disclose how many.

Hamas has threatened to execute hostages, Biden said.

‘The brutality of Hamas’s blood thirstiness brings to mind the worst rampages of ISIS,’ he said. ‘This is terrorism.’

Biden left the State Dining Room of the White House without answering reporters’ questions.

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