The president’s remarks underscore a growing rift over the war in Gaza. He also acknowledged that U.S. bombs have been used to kill Palestinian civilians.

The United Nations said its staff member Waibhav Anil Kale, 46, was killed in Rafah on Monday in an attack on a U.N. vehicle. The shots that killed the worker “came from a tank in the area,” a spokesman for the U.

AMPutin and Xi discuss Ukraine, Israel and Hamas warRussian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held several hours of talks on Thursday in China, with Putin saying both Russia and China want political solutions to the “Ukrainian crisis” and Xi calling for a two-state solution to stop the war between Israel and Hamas.