Washington | US President Joe Biden told Israel’s leaders on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) that they were losing international support for their war in the Gaza Strip, exposing a widening rift with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who rejected out of hand the American vision for a postwar resolution to the conflict.

Mr Biden delivered the blunt assessment of America’s closest ally in the Middle East during a fundraiser in Washington, where he described Mr Netanyahu as the leader of “the most conservative government in Israel’s history”, which doesn’t “want anything remotely approaching a two-state solution” to the country’s long-running dispute with Palestinians.