President Biden said that he thinks the Israel-Hamas war “need[s] a pause” during an event in Minnesota on Tuesday.

While Biden was speaking at the campaign gathering, an audience member shouted: “As a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now.”

The president – who has not supported a ceasefire since the war began on October 7 – said that he believed in a “pause.”

“I think we need a pause,” Biden began. “A pause means give time to get the prisoners out.”

“I’m the guy that convinced Bibi to call for a ceasefire to let the prisoners out,” he added. “I’m the guy that talked to [Egyptian president] Sisi to convince him to open the door.”

Biden later said that he understood the “emotion” over the war and said it is “incredibly complicated for Israelis.”

“It’s incredibly complicated for the Muslim world as well… I supported a two state solution, I have from the very beginning,” he continued. “The fact is the matter is that Hamas is a terrorist organization. A flat-out terrorist organization.”