2023-10-29 16:45:57
The National Security Advisor of the United States, Jake Sullivan, highlighted this Sunday the “responsibility” that Israel has in the death of civilians in Gaza and assured that the US authorities are “pressuring” the Israeli authorities to comply with international laws.
In statements to CNN, Sullivan assured that in conversations with Israel about their military objectives they have raised “tough questions” about the strategy they are carrying out in their incursion into Gaza to combat Hamas and the consequences on the civilian population.
And although He stressed that Hamas is using civilians as “human shields”that “does not diminish the responsibility of Israel, which under international law has to distinguish between terrorists and civilians and protect the lives of civilians and innocent people, such as the majority of the population of Gaza.”
The United States, he insisted, has “put pressure” on Israel in its questions about the objectives and tactical and strategic problems that its operation has.
On the other hand, Jake Sullivan spoke of the responsibility that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in “controlling” extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank, who, as President Joe Biden said a few days ago, are adding “fuel to the fire” in this conflict.
“It is totally unacceptable” that these settlers are committing “violent acts against innocent people in the West Bank,” he added.
And he noted that Biden has spoken publicly and privately about the “accountability” that there must be on Israel’s part in this problem.
Looting at UN warehouses in Gaza
Thousands of people They broke into the warehouses of a United Nations agency to take flour and basic hygiene products, a reflection of growing desperation and the collapse of public order as the war between Israel and the Hamas militants, who rule Gaza, reaches three weeks.
Tanks and infantry entered Gaza over the weekend and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a “second phase” of the war, three weeks after Hamas made a bloody raid on Israel on October 7. The ground offensive grew as Israel struck the territory by land, sea and air.
The Gaza Health Ministry said the death toll among Palestinians had exceeded 8,000 people. It is a figure unprecedented in decades of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, and one that is expected to rise more rapidly as Israel advances its ground offensive.
More than 1,400 people have been killed on the Israeli side, mainly civilians killed during the initial Hamas attack.
With information from agencies.
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