Members of the delegation traveling with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu were disappointed following their meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris, a high-level source told Jewish Insider.

The senior Israeli diplomat was concerned about Harris’s support for Israel. Other sources said the delegation did not have an encouraging first impression of the vice president.

The two leaders exchanged pleasantries during a photo-op and met for about 40 minutes in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.

After the meeting, Harris delivered remarks where she took a critical stance on Israel’s role in the Gaza war, stating that the Jewish state had a right to defend itself but “how it does so matters.”

“I also expressed with the prime minister my serious concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians,” Harris said. “And I made clear my serious concern about the dire humanitarian situation there, with over 2 million people facing high levels of food insecurity and half a million people facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity.”

Harris also called the situation in Gaza “devastating” and said “we cannot look away in the face of these tragedies,” adding that she “will not be silent.”

Netanyahu rejected claims that Israel is deliberately starving Gazans during his joint-address to Congress on Wednesday, stating that Israel “enabled 40,000 aid trucks to enter Gaza” and deliver half a million tons of food.

“If there are Palestinians in Gaza who aren’t getting enough food, it’s not because Israel is blocking it, it’s because Hamas is stealing it,” he said, calling the accusations “a complete fabrication” and “utter nonsense.”

Harris said she told Netanyahu that it’s “time to get this deal done,” despite Hamas recently rejecting a ceasefire proposal.

Netanyahu reportedly told President Joe Biden in a meeting Thursday that the more united the United States and Israel are, the greater the chances of securing hostages through negotiations become, according to Jewish Insider.

Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at southern Israel on Friday afternoon near the city of Ashkelon. 

Harris added that she supports a two-state solution because it is “the only path that ensures Israel remains, secure, Jewish, an democratic state and one that ensures Palestinians can finally realize the freedom, security, and prosperity that they rightly deserve.”

The Israeli delegation was reportedly surprised that Harris took a more aggressive tone in her speech than in their meeting.

In an interview earlier this month, Harris commented on the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel protests that escalated to violence and caused graduation cancellations, saying the protesters “are expressing exactly the human emotion that is appropriate in response to Gaza.”

“I understand the emotion behind it,” Harris said.

The vice president opted not to preside over Netanyahu’s address in Congress on Wednesday, choosing instead to participate in a convention for the historically Black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in Indiana.

Netanyahu will meet with former President Donald Trump Friday afternoon at Mar-A Lago.

Travel in France was disrupted hours before the Paris Games opening ceremony on Friday when arsonists set fire to three high-speed rail lines.

Numerous trains were canceled on Friday morning, and the railway company S.N.C.F. urged travelers to delay their plans, The New York Times reported. The fires started in towns nearly 100 miles outside of Paris and were set in pipes that hold cables used for signaling, according to S.N.C.F. Chief Executive Jean-Pierre Farandou. No one has claimed responsibility.

“The investigation is starting, I call on everyone to be cautious,” said French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. “What we know, what we see, is that this operation was prepared, coordinated, that nerve centers were targeted, which shows a certain knowledge of the network to know where to strike.”

The arson attacks happened as French authorities have been ramping up security around Paris in anticipation of the Olympic Games, with around 55,000 police and soldiers monitoring the capital city, Reuters reported. Authorities expect to see more than 300,000 spectators gather near the River Seine for the opening ceremony.

Along with thousands of spectators having to change their plans, some Olympic athletes were also caught up in the commuting nightmare following the arson attacks. Two German athletes were forced to turn back after the rail line closures, and will likely miss the opening ceremony, according to the Associated Press, which cited a German news agency.

Police have also taken proactive security measures before the Games, targeting 155 people deemed potential threats and essentially placing them under house arrest, according to the Times. French authorities arrested a man in May for allegedly planning on carrying out an attack outside of an Olympic soccer match in the southern town of Saint-Étienne. A Russian man was also arrested on suspicion of attempting to “destabilize the Olympic Games.”

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that 5,000 people who had applied to work numerous different jobs during the competitions, such as security and stadium workers, were rejected when criminal records flagged them for “radicalization.” France has also requested the help of U.S. security. Officers from New York and Los Angeles, along with bomb-sniffing dogs, will be joining the security forces at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Bruno Le Ray, a retired general who is in charge of Olympics security, said, “The security measures and the resources deployed for the Games’ opening ceremony are unprecedented.”