Obama acknowledged the views of both sides in the conflict

Former US President Barack Obama said that "everyone is complicit to some extent" in the bloodshed in the war between Israel and Hamas, calling on Americans to "understand the full truth" related to the conflict, according to what the American newspaper "New York Times" reported.

The newspaper reported that Obama said in front of thousands of former aides: “I look at this and think back...what could I have done during my presidency.”

Obama arrived at the White House convinced that he could be the president who would resolve the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, but he left office after years of friction and mistrust with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was frustrated with the nuclear agreement with Iran, and Obama’s demands that it suspend... Israel new settlements.

In his remarks Friday, delivered at a gathering of his former staff in Chicago, Obama acknowledged the “strong emotions aroused by the war” and blamed social media for “magnifying divisions and reducing a thorny international conflict to slogans.”

He urged his former aides to "accept the whole truth," saying: "What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for that," adding at the same time that "the occupation and what is happening to the Palestinians is unbearable."

He continued: "What is also true is that there is a history of the Jewish people that you may reject unless your grandparents, uncle, or aunt tell you stories about the madness of anti-Semitism. What is true is that there are people dying now, and they have nothing to do with what Hamas did."

The war sparked divisions even within the administration of US President Joe Biden. Axios reported that the Democratic National Committee, which the US President relies on in his re-election campaign, is “in a state of turmoil and division” due to the war between Israel and Hamas.

Some aides believe that the White House is “inciting an immoral attack on the Palestinians,” while others believe that Biden is showing “moral clarity in protecting Israel from terrorists,” according to what the site reports in a report.

Thousands of people participated, on Saturday evening, in Tel Aviv, in a demonstration by families and supporters of those kidnapped by Hamas, demanding that Prime Minister Netanyahu “make more efforts to release them,” according to Agence France-Presse.

International pressure is mounting on the Israeli government, with the aim of pushing it to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

On Saturday, Biden announced “progress” in securing a humanitarian truce in the war between Israel and Hamas, at a time when his Secretary of State is working on the same issue in the Middle East.

Effects of the Israeli bombing of Gaza

When asked if any progress had been made on the issue, Biden answered “yes” as he left a church in Delaware, and gave a thumbs up before getting into his car. He did not give any other details.

So far, 9,488 people have been killed as a result of the Israeli bombing of Gaza, most of them civilians, including 3,900 children, according to a toll announced by the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

An Israeli soldier stands next to a military vehicle near the Israeli border with Gaza

At least 1,400 people have been killed in Israel since October 7, most of them civilians and including women and children. Hamas kidnapped 241 hostages, according to the army.