U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday (April 16) paid a visit to his boyhood town of Scranton, Pennsylvania amid competing chants from pro-Palestinian protesters and local supporters as he kicked off a multi-city tour of the battleground state.

Outside the Scranton Cultural Center, where Biden spoke, a small group of protesters chanted /”Biden, Biden you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide,/” referring to Biden’s policy largely supporting Israel in its campaign to root out Hamas from Gaza, following the group’s deadly October 7 attacks in Israel.

The Palestinian health ministry says more than 33,000 Palestinians have so far been killed by Israeli fire.

Biden later received a more favorable reception as he toured his boyhood home in the working class city accompanied by local residents, some of whom chanted /”We love Joe./” -Report from Reuters

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