“We are monitoring the threat environment surrounding Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit,” the Secret Service told Newsweek.
A senior Hamas official has issued a warning to the United States over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit and upcoming address to Congress amid the war between the Palestinian movement and Israel in the Gaza Strip.
“Humanity should be ashamed of itself for allowing this crime of ‘genocide’ to continue, while the criminal ‘NETANYAHU’ who is carrying it out is to be received warmly in the capital of the biggest country in the world”, Hamas spokesperson and former health minister Basem Naim said in a statement shared with Newsweek.
The remarks came as Naim also penned an op-ed for Al-Jazeera on Tuesday in which he argued that “receiving a person accused of all kinds of war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially the crime of genocide, and celebrating him and enabling him from the highest platforms in the country to spread his lies, is a bad omen for you before it is for us, the Palestinians and the peoples of the region.”
President Joe Biden’s administration has provided substantial military aid to Israel since the beginning of the conflict, which erupted last October after a Hamas-led surprise attack on Israel. At the same time, the war has emerged as a deeply polarizing issue in the U.S., with pro-Palestinian protests regularly breaking out across cities and college campuses nationwide in response to Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza, which has included the targeting of senior leaders of Hamas and other allied factions.
