United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel’s war in Gaza has resulted in ‘a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians’ without neutralising Hamas. Follow updates live.
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians” but failed to neutralise Hamas leaders and fighters and could drive a lasting insurgency.
” Blinken also said that as Israel pushes deeper in Rafah in the south, where Israel says Hamas has four battalions and where more than one million civilians have massed, a military operation may “have some initial success” but risks “terrible harm” to the population without solving a problem “that both of us want to solve, which is making sure Hamas cannot again govern Gaza.
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