‘We Have to Do Extra to Defend Palestinian Civilians,’ Blinken Says

We have to do extra to guard Palestinian civilians. We’ve been clear that as Israel conducts this marketing campaign to defeat Hamas, the way it does so issues. It issues as a result of it’s the proper and lawful factor to do. It issues as a result of failure to take action performs into the arms of Hamas and different terror teams. There shall be no companions for peace in the event that they’re consumed by humanitarian disaster and alienated by any perceived indifference to their plight. Hamas doesn’t care one second or one iota for the welfare, for the well-being of the Palestinian folks. It cynically and monstrously makes use of them as human shields, placing its commanders and command posts, its weapons and ammunition inside or beneath residential buildings, faculties, mosques, hospitals. However civilians shouldn’t undergo the implications for its inhumanity and its brutality. We supplied Israel recommendation that solely the very best of buddies can supply on the best way to decrease civilian deaths whereas nonetheless attaining its aims of discovering and ending Hamas terrorists and their infrastructure of violence.