Israel's war in Gaza undermines US credibility, group of former world leaders tell Biden 

A group of former world leaders, including high-ranking UN officials and former heads of state, has penned an open letter to US President Joe Biden telling him that Israel’s military assault on Gaza is threatening American "credibility and interests across the world".

“Israeli policies of expanding illegal settlements in the West Bank, and normalising relations with Arab countries while bypassing the Palestinians, have not made Israelis safe. Successive US governments have been complicit in these failures,” said the group, known as the Elders.

The Elders said that the Israel-Palestine conflict "must be resolved, permanently, through negotiation".

The group was founded by Nelson Mandela and is currently headed by Mary Robinson, a former UN high commissioner for human rights.