Former President Trump said Israel “wouldn’t have had to be prepared” if he was president, implying that the U.S. would have detected and stopped a Hamas attack Saturday which sparked a war between Israel and the militant group in Gaza.
The comments were released as a clip from an interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade, to air Thursday.
“We have to protect Israel, there’s no choice,” Trump said. “And why do we have to do it? [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] has been hurt very badly because of what’s happened here. He was not prepared. He was not prepared and Israel was not prepared. And under Trump, they wouldn’t have had to be prepared.”
The fighting in Israel and Gaza has killed over two thousand people on both sides of the conflict, including hundreds of civilians.
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