Tel Aviv, Israel - New U.S. ambassador Mike Huckabee told NPR he was “angry” at the British, French and Canadian leaders as he condemned Israel’s new military offensive in Gaza.

"The long-term suffering for everyone is a pain for Hamas, and I'm angry that they blame the wrong perpetrators," former Republican Governor Huckabee said in an interview at the U.S. Embassy's office in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

According to Gaza health officials, Israel launched an offensive in Gaza on Sunday, ordering a massive evacuation, strengthening air strikes across the territory and killing hundreds of Palestinians. Under enormous international pressure, Israel has begun to impose a full lockdown on food, medicine and other goods in nearly three months, but has begun providing a small amount of aid to the enclaves this week - but new aid has not been allocated to civilians in Gaza.

Leaders in the UK, France and Canada said they strongly opposed the war's expansion, publishing a joint statement this week saying Israel's behavior at Gaza locations was "totally disproportionate" and "weird" and said the basic food allowed by Israel in "totally inadequate".

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the government is suspending trade talks with Israel. The EU is reviewing all political and economic agreements with the country.

"I can't tell the Israelites how to fight. ... My family was not murdered, slaughtered, dismembered," Heckabee said, referring to the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023 that killed about 1,200 people in Israel.

Heckabee quoted the Allied bombings at the end of World War II, saying: "Those bombings that ended up World War II and stopped the Nazis from entering Europe are so hypocritical. But if the Israelites defended their own existential threats to some extent with the Israelites after 70 years, we would be angry."

He further said: "I just found that some of these European countries have forgotten their history, and not long ago, they should go back, they should go back, maybe take 10th grade citizens and refresh themselves."

More than 53,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, according to data from health authorities on the territory.

Huckabee also denied media reports that Trump's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed the Gaza offensive after a two-month ceasefire this year after Trump himself renewed the Gaza offensive this year.

"I think he's even more frustrated with Hamas. I can't see the frustration of the Prime Minister, I've talked to the President, I've talked to the Vice President, I've talked to the Secretary of State," Huckaby said.

Pope Leo also brought his voice to appeal when European leaders urged Israel to provide more aid to Gaza, saying the situation there was “worrying and painful.”

"I am more enthusiastic about appealing to allow fair humanitarian help and end hostilities, which are devastating prices paid by children, seniors and patients," said the newly appointed American-born PONTIFF.