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Hedge fund billionaire
Bill Ackman
strongly criticized the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration after the bodies of six hostages, including one American, were found in
Gaza
. Putting in context, Ackman said the murder of a US hostage took place when hostage negotiations are underway, when the parents of the hostage spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
"Consider that Hamas chose to execute an
American hostage
with a bullet to the back of his head during the last two or three days (along with five other hostages) whose parents just spoke at the DNC less than two weeks ago, while hostage negotiations were underway."
"Consider that the U.S.
strategy over the last 330 days has been to pressure Israel to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, including through the withholding of weapons from @Israel, and by periodically leaking our failure to support our ally to the media in the midst of hostage negotiations," he wrote.
To be an American has become much less safe since October 7 because of the failed leadership, he said proposing that the US should put more pressure on allies in the region instead of pressuring Israel.
Biden said he was "devastated and outraged" over the recovery of six bodies of hostages from the Gaza strip. Terming the development as "tragic" and "reprehensible" Biden unequivocally warned that "Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes". The US President said Israeli forces had on Saturday recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas in a tunnel under the city of Rafah.
"We have now confirmed that one of the hostages killed by these vicious Hamas terrorists was an American citizen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
The Israel Defence Force (IDF) Spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, was cited by Times of Israel as saying that the six hostages recovered from southern Gaza's Rafah were "brutally murdered" by Hamas shortly before IDF troops arrived.
Talking to reporters after leaving a church in Delaware, Biden said, "It's time this war ended." "We should end this war." Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement that Hamas "must be eliminated" and cannot be allowed to control Gaza.
