Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, meet with US Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

During a joint press conference held in Jerusalem on Wednesday, the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden condemned what he called “those in the international community who failed to condemn Palestinian terror attacks against Israel.”

Biden, who is in a five-day-trip to the Middle East,  said to the press that his wife and his grandchildren, who have joined him on this trip, were having dinner on the beach nearby where a Palestinian man killed an American citizen and wounded 12 others – and was further killed in cold blood by the IOF.

He repeated stressed the deep personal and professional friendship he shares with Netanyahu — and the “bond that can never be broken” between their two countries.

“It doesn’t mean we don’t disagree but you never need to doubt that the United States of America has Israel’s back… and we know Israel has our back as well,” Biden said.

When asked by the reporters about the “terrorist attacks” against Israelis yesterday, Biden said:

Speaking after Biden, the Israeli Prime Minister thanked the U.S. Vice President for his strong support and denounced the Palestinian Authority for “failing to condemned his people’s terror attacks against Israelis.”

During Biden’s meeting with Netanyahu on Tuesday, 4 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli occupation forces in different occurrences, including a 50-year-old Palestinian woman and three Palestinian men. In addition, one American citizen was killed by a Palestinian man.

On Wednesday morning three other Palestinians were killed by the IOF.

During their speeches to the press, none of them mentioned any of the seven Palestinians killed by the IOF.

Source: PNN