Video: ‘We Have to Do Extra to Shield Palestinian Civilians,’ Blinken Says Acquire US

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 precise 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 can 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 offered Israel recommendation that solely the most effective of pals can provide on easy methods to decrease civilian deaths whereas nonetheless reaching its targets of discovering and ending Hamas terrorists and their infrastructure of violence.