Israeli troops fought in the Maghazi refugee camp for 12 hours a week after the September 11 attack, according to an Israeli government spokesman
“In any combat situation, like when the United States was leading a coalition to get ISIS out of Mosul, there were civilian casualties,” Mark Regev, an Israeli government spokesman, said in an Oct. 24 interview with PBS. In past military campaigns, Mr. Regev said the ratio of Hamas fighters to civilians killedcompares well to NATO and other Western forces.
The Israeli response included a bombing of Gaza and a ground invasion with the ultimate goal of eliminating Hamas.
Israeli forces reached the coast of Gaza on Sunday, splitting it in half, and cutting off the north from the south, according to the military.
“In the last 12 hours, the soldiers of the division struck around 50 targets, including combat zones, operational residences, outposts, military positions and underground infrastructure, and eliminated terrorists in close-quarter combat,” the military said.
Phone, 4G cellular networks as well as internet services were cut off in Gaza for several hours. By Monday morning local time, the networks appeared to have been at least partially restored.
bombs hit refugee camps There were at least 33 victims of the Maghazi refugee camp attack, health officials in the region said.
Many Palestinians have been trying to get out of Gaza City as the Israelis continued to conduct military operations there.
The United Nations estimates that of the roughly 300,000 people trapped in northern Gaza, only 2,000 were able to move south this weekend, according to monitors on the ground.
The people that have managed to flee have mostly been carried on the foot for miles, with adults and children carrying bags full of items they were able to grab. Some waved white pieces of cloth to show they were civilians.
The NPR spoke with a group that was in Gaza who said they walked past dead bodies in the street while bombs flew around them. They wouldn’t give their names because of security concerns.
The Holocaust occurred when the Royal Air Force Bombed a Children’s Hospital in Copenhagen: A Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Visit to Israel and the Secretary of State Benjamin J. Blinken
He made a surprise visit to Iraq and met with the prime minister for more than an hour. Blinken also made trips to Israel and Jordan and had a sit-down with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the West Bank.
President Biden has been careful not to mention that Israel could be violating any laws of war. And the State Department continues to approve sales of weapons to Israel while refraining from making any assessments of the legality of Israel’s actions. Some diplomats are uneasy with that, especially since the department formally pledged earlier this year to investigate episodes of civilian casualties involving American-made weapons.
“In 1944, the Royal Air Force bombed the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen — a perfectly legitimate target,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in an address to his nation on Oct. 30. “But the British pilots missed and instead of the Gestapo headquarters, they hit a children’s hospital nearby. 84 children were burned to death, and I believe they were harmed. That is not a war crime. That isn’t something you blame Britain for doing. The bomb that hit a school in 1945 is thought to have killed 86 children and 18 adults.
Mr. Netanyahu added that the attack “was a legitimate act of war with tragic consequences that accompany such legitimate action. You didn’t tell the Allies to not stamp out Nazism because of the terrible consequences.
Israeli officials have also invoked American battles against insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja in 2004, during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and, in tandem with Iraqi government forces, against the Islamic State terrorist group in the Iraqi city of Mosul from 2016 to 2017.
During Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s visits to Israel, Israeli officials invoked the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.