President Joe Biden reveals what motivated Hamas to attack Israel

President Joe Biden said that Hamas’ attacks on Israel were motivated to scuttle the potential normalisation of the U.S. ally’s relations with Saudi Arabia.

“One of the reasons Hamas moved on Israel … they knew that I was about to sit down with the Saudis,” Biden said at a campaign event Friday night, according to pool reports. The president added that Saudi wanted to recognise Israel.

Less than a month ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had also expressed optimism about the potential peace between the two countries. He had termed it as “historic peace.”

The normalisation push began under the administration of former president Donald Trump and was branded as ‘The Abraham Accords’.

However, the normalisation has been pushed farther from reach, as Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, and Israel retaliated with a brutal counteroffensive force.

On Saturday, the border between Gaza and Egypt was opened for the first time to allow only 20 of the 200 trucks waiting at the border with humanitarian aid.