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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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…

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.

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

We could go we saw hate manifested another way in the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. More than 1300 innocent live last in Israel, including at least 27 Americans, children and grandparents alike kidnapped, held…

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…

The Biden Administration, Israel, and in fact, many other countries are watching this play out and trying to make sure it doesn't spill over into any other countries and escalate into a regional conflict.

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.

I say we're going to do everything in our power to find them, everything on our power. And I'm not going to go into the detail of that, but we're working like hell on it. Because I think they have to know that the president of the United…

The brutality of Hamas, the blood thirstiness brings to mind the worst -- the worst rampages of ISIS.