President Joe Biden condemned the attacks by Hamas on US ally Israel as “sheer evil” in an emotional speech and said Washington is ready to deploy more military assets to the region.
The Palestinian group had carried out atrocities including murders of entire families and rapes of women, along with “stomach-turning reports of babies being killed,” Biden said from the White House. “There are moments in this life — I mean this literally — when a pure unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world,” he said in a hushed voice during a televised speech. “This is an act of sheer evil.”