President Joe Biden on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza is unacceptable and warned Israel to take steps to address the crisis or face consequences, a stark statement from Israel맥스카지노�s staunchest ally.The 30-minute conversation was the two leaders맥스카지노� first phone call since an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen in Gaza. The killings have set off a furor inside the White House and Biden has been described as reaching a new level of frustration with Israel맥스카지노�s campaign.맥스카지노�President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable,맥스카지노� the White House said in a statement shortly after the call wrapped. 맥스카지노�He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel맥스카지노�s immediate action on these steps.맥스카지노�Biden also said Israel needed to 맥스카지노�announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers.맥스카지노�In the phone call, Netanyahu admitted to his American counterpart that the Israel Defense Forces were to blame for the deaths of the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers this week 맥스카지노� and assured Biden that the Israeli government planned to announce measures to prevent such a mistake from happening again, according to a senior administration official.Netanyahu told Biden that Israel was set on improving the tracking of non-profit workers inside Gaza and Biden affirmed that such steps were necessary, the official said. The prime minister also pledged during the call that Israel will soon announce new openings of humanitarian crossings, as well as procedural changes to limit civilian harm.CNN reported Thursday afternoon that the Israeli security cabinet has approved the reopening of the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza strip, according to an Israeli official, in order to allow more humanitarian aid into the enclave.Speaking in Brussels after the call, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the stakes clear: 맥스카지노�If we don맥스카지노�t see the changes that we need to see, there맥스카지노�ll be changes in our own policy,맥스카지노� he said. However, neither Blinken nor National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, speaking later at the White House press briefing, detailed what those potential policy changes could be.Kirby said the U.S. 맥스카지노�would hope to see some announcements of changes here in the coming hours and days 맥스카지노� and I맥스카지노�ll leave it at that.맥스카지노�Video below: Kirby says administration wants to see change from Israeli sideBiden did not lay out the specifics of how he would consider shifting U.S. policy during the call if Israel doesn맥스카지노�t make changes in its handling of the war in Gaza, speaking instead in the same broad strokes reflected in the White House readout of the call that concrete 맥스카지노�changes맥스카지노� needed to be made, the senior administration official said.While there were moments of disagreement between Biden and Netanyahu on the call 맥스카지노� typical among the two leaders who have known each other for decades 맥스카지노� there was no 맥스카지노�sparring,맥스카지노� the official said, describing the conversation as 맥스카지노�direct.맥스카지노�There is no follow-up call currently planned between the two leaders, according to the official.The call amounts to perhaps the most serious sign of Biden맥스카지노�s frustration with Israel맥스카지노�s campaign in Gaza, which was launched in the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas. In the time since, more than 32,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian enclave맥스카지노�s health ministry, and grisly reports of civilian deaths are made every day.The war has become one of Biden맥스카지노�s chief domestic political problems ahead of November맥스카지노�s election as key parts of his voter coalition have been outraged by the president맥스카지노�s support for Israel맥스카지노�s war. Protests have popped up at nearly every public event the president has held outside the White House in recent months and he was confronted in an intimate meeting with Muslim leaders earlier this week with stark opposition to the U.S.맥스카지노� policy toward the war.That political conundrum made Thursday맥스카지노�s call and the statements from Blinken and Kirby particularly notable, as both men indicated possible change in the U.S.맥스카지노� posture toward the war may come if Israel keeps up its current practices.Blinken said Israel should not stoop to the level of Hamas in its response to the group맥스카지노�s Oct. 7 attacks.Video below: White House 'outraged' by Israeli strike that kills seven World Central Kitchen aid workers 맥스카지노�Israel is not Hamas,맥스카지노� Blinken said. 맥스카지노�Israel is a democracy, Hamas a terrorist organization. And democracies place the highest value on human life - every human life.맥스카지노�Biden was shaken by the strike on the World Central Kitchen workers, Kirby said.Israel has acknowledged responsibility for the strikes but said the convoy was not targeted and the workers맥스카지노� deaths were not intentional. The country continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding the killings. Blinken acknowledged the World Central Kitchen strike was not the first time Israel has killed aid workers in the conflict.맥스카지노�It must be the last,맥스카지노� he said.But even at the same time that the administration was alluding to potential changes in policy if Israel doesn맥스카지노�t stop killing civilians, the U.S. was sending more deadly weapons to its ally.Biden is set to green light an $18 billion sale of fighter jets from the United States and Israel and the administration recently authorized the transfer to Israel of over 1,000 500-pound bombs and over 1,000 small-diameter bombs, according to three people familiar with the matter.Kirby defended the arms sale and transfers as the product of yearslong processes.맥스카지노�With the exception of the immediate two months after the attack, we haven맥스카지노�t really sent emergency aid and military assistance to Israel,맥스카지노� Kirby said. 맥스카지노�What you맥스카지노�re seeing here is the result of a process of foreign military sales to Israel that takes years.맥스카지노�Earlier on Thursday, one of Biden맥스카지노�s closest allies on Capitol Hill 맥스카지노� Democratic Sen. Chris Coons 맥스카지노� told CNN that for the first time he is open to applying conditions to aid for Israel after the strike on the World Central Kitchen workers.맥스카지노�I think we맥스카지노�re at that point,맥스카지노� he told CNN맥스카지노�s Sara Sidner. 맥스카지노�I think we맥스카지노�re at the point where President Biden has said 맥스카지노� and I have said and others have said 맥스카지노� if Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister, were to order the IDF into Rafah at scale, they were to drop thousand pound bombs and send in a battalion to go after Hamas and make no provision for civilians or for humanitarian aid, that I would vote to condition aid to Israel.맥스카지노�The president has called for a temporary ceasefire that includes the release of hostages held by Hamas, and has repeatedly said he does not want Israel to undertake a ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza, where scores of displaced Gazans have sought shelter. He again called for a temporary ceasefire in the call with Netanyahu on Thursday.맥스카지노�He underscored that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians, and he urged the prime minister to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home,맥스카지노� the White House said in its statement following the call.But, Biden has so far stopped short of calling for a permanent ceasefire. His hesitance to do so is increasingly out of step with the actions and public statements of other world leaders, including U.S. allies. CNN맥스카지노�s Jennifer Hansler and Donald Judd contributed to this report.