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on Wednesday implicitly criticized Paleostinian leaders for not condemning attacks against Israelis, as an upsurge in violence marred his visit.
Six separate attacks took place shortly before or after Biden's arrival Tuesday, including a stabbing spree on Tel Aviv's waterfront by a Paleostinian who killed an American tourist and maimed 12 other people.
The stabbings in the Jaffa port area took place as Biden met former Israeli president Shimon Peres about a kilometer (less than a mile) away on Tuesday.
Biden said his wife and grandchildren had been having dinner on the beach not far from the site of the stabbings.
"The United States of America condemns these acts and condemns the failure to condemn these acts," Biden said while meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"The kind of violence we saw yesterday, the failure to condemn it, the rhetoric that incites that violence, the retribution that it generates, has to stop."
Biden offered his condolences to the family of the American victim, 29-year-old Taylor Force, whom he noted had served in the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq.