Biden says he doesn’t think Israel overreacted in its Gaza response

US President Joe Biden says he does not think Israel has overreacted in its response to rocket fire from Gaza.

“One of the things I’ve seen thus far is that there has not been a significant overreaction [by Israel],” he says, when asked at a press conference.

“The question is how they get to a point where there is a significant reduction in the attacks, particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired into population centers, but I expect that I’ll be having some more discussions,” Biden says, adding that various offices in his administration have been in frequent contact with not just the Israelis, but also the Egyptians, the Saudis and others on the matter.

He describes his phone call yesterday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “brief.”