Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will try to shore up US support for his war in Gaza during an address on Wednesday to both chambers of Congress. Netanyahu’s speech to lawmakers – a rare honour for a foreign leader – comes amid deep divisions in Washington about Israel’s nine-month war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It is Netanyahu’s first visit to Washington in almost four years and his first trip abroad since the attack by the Palestinian extremist group on southern Israel on October 7, which triggered a devastating retaliatory response. Both President Joe Biden and Republican pre…