US President Joe Biden said late Friday night that Benjamin Netanyahu should allow more humanitarian aid to be flown into Gaza after he was caught saying he would have a frank discussion with Israel’s prime minister about the war in Gaza.

“Yes,” Joe Biden told reporters when asked if Benjamin Netanyahu should do more to allow aid to flow.

“He should understand,” the Democratic leader said on Thursday night on the sidelines of his State of the Union address — according to US media footage — in which the president spoke to a senator he believed had private conversation and didn’t seem to know there was a microphone nearby.

Earlier, the US military carried out its fourth airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, a US official told Reuters, amid an ongoing humanitarian disaster in the densely populated coastal enclave.

The official, who asked not to be named, did not elaborate on the aid drop, its location or the number of meals delivered.

Meanwhile, a Pentagon spokesman said a temporary port the United States wants to build to speed up the delivery of aid to Gaza will take “several weeks” to plan and execute, adding that the U.S. eventually plans to provide two million meals to Gazans daily.

That process may involve the participation of 1,000 members of the US armed forces, but US troops will not be deployed on the ground, the Pentagon clarified. He added that Washington is working out the details with partner countries in the Middle East.

President Joe Biden, who first announced the airdrop operation last week, announced Thursday that the US military will build a temporary port in the coming weeks on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered. by sea.