US President Joe Biden said that more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip and that most of them were not members of the Hamas movement.

This came in his State of the Union address to Congress, in which he noted that “Israel lived through the bloodiest day since the Holocaust” following the Hamas attacks on October 7.

Biden pointed out that Israel has the right to pursue Hamas until the end, stressing that it bears the responsibility not to target civilians when carrying out its attacks.

He said: "This war has claimed more innocent civilian lives than all previous wars in Gaza combined. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of whom are not members of Hamas. Thousands and thousands of women and children have been killed, and boys and girls have been orphaned."

Biden announced that he had issued instructions to the US Army to establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast, indicating that more humanitarian aid would enter Gaza by sea through this port without American soldiers setting foot in Gaza.

He added: “This temporary port will enable large amounts of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza every day, but Israel must also do its part, and must allow more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, and ensure that humanitarian workers are not exposed to gunfire. "Israeli leaders do so, as humanitarian aid cannot be a bargaining chip or a secondary issue."

He also reiterated that the only political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the two-state solution.