Biden: Israeli bombardment of Gaza not a 'significant over-reaction'

US President Joe Biden was speaking at a press conference a short while ago. Below is a short transcript of some of his comments on the situation in Israel and Palestine:

"I have my intelligence community, the Defense Department, as well as the State department, have been in contact with all of their counterparts, not only in Israel, but in the region, and one of the things I have seen thus far is there has not been a significant over-reaction.

"The question is how do we get to a point - they get to a point - where there is a significant reduction in the attacks - particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired in the population centres - but I expect I'll be having some discussions.

"We haven't just spoken with the Israelis - it's been the Egyptians, the Saudis and others - so it's a work in progress right now."