Former president Donald Trump said Israel "will not exist two years from now" if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected president, arguing that she "hates Israel" and would give financial support to Iran.
Trump made the comments during the ABC News presidential debate on Tuesday, where Harris reiterated her call for a ceasefire deal and a two-state solution.
The debate comes a week after Hamas executed six Israeli hostages, including 23-year-old American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and as the Biden-Harris administration continues to push for a ceasefire agreement between the Israeli government and the terrorist group.
"She hates Israel. If she's president, I believe that Israel will not exist within two years from now," said Trump. "I've been pretty good at predictions, and I hope I'm wrong about that one."
Trump noted that Harris declined to meet with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his recent visit to Washington, D.C., choosing instead to speak at a college sorority event.
Harris was the first senior administration official to call for an Israeli ceasefire last March, drawing praise from anti-Israel politicians such as Congressional Progressive Caucus chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.).
During the debate, Harris—who has declined to rule out blocking arms shipments to Israel—said she supports Israel’s right to defend itself but also criticized the Jewish state for the Palestinian death toll.
"Israel has a right to defend itself," she said. "How it does so matters because it is also true, far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed, children, mothers."
She said she would "always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular, as it relates to—as it relates to Iran, and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel. But we must have a two-state solution."
Trump pushed back on her comments, arguing that the Biden-Harris administration unfroze $16 billion in funding to Iran, rolling back Trump-era sanctions on the terrorist state.
"Iran was broke under Donald Trump. Now Iran has $300 billion because they took off all the sanctions that I had. Iran had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah or any of the 28 different spheres of terror," said Trump.