Former US special envoy Amos Hochstein denounced as untrue Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Tuesday remarks that IDF soldiers died in Gaza due to a partial embargo imposed by the Biden administration.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, Hochstein said, Netanyahu’s remarks were “not only decidedly false but also ungrateful to a US President and American people who saved Israel repeatedly at their most vulnerable moments.”
"Our soldiers fell [in Gaza] because we didn't have enough ammunition, " the prime minister claimed on Tuesday during a joint press conference with Hostage Coordinator Gal Hirsch. "That changed when Trump took office."
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Hochstein slams PM Netanyahu
Later on Tuesday, Hochstein told Israeli reporter Barak Ravid, "Netanyahu is both not telling the truth and ungrateful to a president that literally saved Israel at its most vulnerable moment."
“After more than $20 Billion military support, largest in #Israel's history, 2 aircraft carriers rushed to the region, deterring a massive regional war, defeating Iran missile/drone attack x2, defending israel at most vulnerable moments, after SAVING countless lives of Israelis,” Hochstein wrote in a subsequent post to X/Twitter.