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Based on the information we've seen to date, it appears as a result of an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza.

I understand and many Americans understand, you can't look at what has happened here to your mothers, your fathers, your grandparents, sons, daughters, children, even babies, and not scream out for justice. Justice must be done.

The president making a decision late this afternoon, huddling with his national security team, his secretary of state, as they tried to assess information about that hospital blast.

This is going to be an increasingly urgent matter for the president.

He is going to be even more emphatic about that than before.

The President will stay in close contact with these leaders that he is no longer going to see in person.

I'm saddened and outraged by the attack, and that I've directed my National Security team, to keep looking at new information, as it comes in.

We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.

The United States, make no mistake about it, stands with Israel.

I do believe if Israel tried to re-occupy Gaza, it would be a big mistake.

Israel should not try to reoccupy Gaza, while adding that he does believe Israel has to respond to the Hamas assault that has killed 1400 people, including, tonight we are learning, 30 Americans.

I think it'd be a big mistake. What happened in Gaza, in my view is Hamas and the extreme elements of Hamas don't represent all the Palestinian people. And I think that it would be a mistake to for Israel to occupy Gaza again.

Families of American Israeli hostages are urging the Biden Administration to act now.

I'm confident that Israel is going to act under the major, the rules of war. There's a standards that democratic institutions and countries will go by. And so I'm -- I'm confident that there's going to be an ability for the innocents in…

I have not given up hope of bringing these folks home.

This was an act of sheer evil. To any country, any organization, anyone thinking of taking advantage of this situation, I have one word: don’t.

A week ago, we saw hate manifested another way, with the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. More than 1,300 innocent lives lost in Israel, including at least 27 Americans. Children, and grandparents alike kidnapped, held…

This is a message of deterrence, as the Biden administration watches very closely whether the fighting that's right now contained to Israel and Gaza could or would spread beyond those borders.