The White House says it won’t support Israel’s plan to expand its operations into the south of the Gaza Strip unless it shows it will protect the Palestinian civilians there.
In a Tuesday press call, US National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said the United States won’t support Israel “moving forward with operations in the south absent a clearly articulated plan for how they’re going to protect the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people” there.
“There’s an obligation for them to factor that into their planning,” Kirby said.
The NSC spokesman noted that the population in the south of the terror-run enclave has swelled as Israel ordered the northern population to flee southwards. It’s “even more incumbent” on Israel to “protect those civilians who moved at their urging,” said Kirby.
Israel ordered approximately 1 million Palestinians living in Gaza City to move south on Oct. 13. “This evacuation is for your own safety,” the Israeli military said in a warning sent to civilians as it ramped up its efforts to eradicate Hamas terrorists in the northern part of the Strip.
“We were glad to see that they set up safe corridors in the north for people to get out of the fighting there in north Gaza,” said Kirby.
The evacuation was slowed by Hamas targeting civilians to keep them in harm’s way, calculating that Israel would be held responsible for civilian deaths.
On Nov. 13, a month after calling for the civilian evacuation, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Hamas has lost control of the Gaza Strip.
It is estimated that the IDF’s next operational step will be to head south in Gaza, following a temporary ceasefire to free some of the 240 hostages captured by Hamas on Oct. 7 during its invasion of southern Israel.
If the US of A keeps trying to control Israel, there will never be good days in Israel again. There is something truly diabolical to the Israeli govt being so controlled by the US.
If you have to protect the civilians, forget it! Where did Hamas come from?? Pluto? They ARE the civilians! The civilians ARE Hamas.
After the ‘war’, or whatever one can call this, the US and the rest of the evil West will demand a two state solution and a division of Jerusalem. Then, I guess, all Arab nations will sign the phony Abraham Accords. . . People better check out on google the special Abraham Accord coin that was made. Signed by trump. See the syringes, the nuclear bombs, etc on that eerie coin.
When you get these kids out, if they actually come out, then I would totally destroy Gaza, if I was in charge. Let’s all remind Biden that 500,000+ Ukrainians have been killed during the present Russia Ukraine war, and why does the world not demand the same of Russia: ceasefire, freeing of captives, and surgical precision bombing??
If the Biden admin was so concerned about the welfare of Gaza’s civilians it would open the border to Egypt to allow them to flee there for safety. After all it was sufficient for the children of Israel on more than one occasion during its history. If the US can dictate conditions to Israel it can easily do the same with Egypt who are also recipients of large amounts of US aid.
The Obidema administration helps pay for slaying Jews during terrorist attacks, why should anyone think the democrats are a true friend of Israel? there is no real proof of that. Has everyone forgotten how this administration forgot about its true friends in Afghanistan?