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US President Joe Biden on Sunday marked six years since a deadly synagogue attack in Pittsburgh by lamenting an "appalling surge" of anti-Semitism since the war in Gaza started.
In 2018, a rightwing extremist killed 11 Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in the former Pennsylvania steel hub in America's deadliest anti-Semitic attack.
This year's commemoration falls on the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year that sparked the war in Gaza.
"One year later, the trauma and losses from that day and its aftermath are not only raw, but exacerbated by the appalling surge of anti-Semitism against Jews in America and around the world," said Biden in a statement.
Biden, whose administration has backed Israel since the start of the conflict, said he had launched before October 7 the country's first National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
"We are aggressively implementing it," he said, adding that his administration had secured $1.2 billion to provide physical security of synagogues, Jewish schools and other non-profit organisations.
The Department of Justice was also probing and prosecuting anti-Semitic hate crimes, he said.
US university campuses were earlier this year roiled by protests against the war in Gaza.
Hamas's October 7 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures.
At least 42,924 Palestinians, a majority of them civilians, have since been killed in the Israeli offensive on Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas-ruled territory's health ministry, which the UN considers reliable.
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