White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby stated on Friday’s Fox News Channel” The Story” that Israel has n’t done its part to protect civilians and provide humanitarian aid, and that” we have tens of thousands of dead and injured Palestinians.” Today, some of them are Hamas, no question about that. But the toll’s really been to high”.
According to Kirby, Hamas must remain completely overthrown, and Hamas violated a ceasefire on October 6.
Host Martha MacCallum then asked,” Is n’t it Hamas ‘ fault that these people are suffering”?
Kirby responded,” Hamas started this war, as you said, no question about that, this conflict did n’t occur without Mr. Sinwar’s decision to offend that ceasefire, but what we’ve even said is that, Israel, in addition to having the obligation to proceed eliminate that risk, they also have an obligation to do everything possible to protect citizens and to allow humanitarian aid. And we just have n’t seen them meet those obligations to the degree that’s needed. I mean, we have tens of thousands of dead and injured Palestinians. Now, some of them are Hamas, no question about that. But the toll’s just been too high. We want Israel to succeed here, of course we do, but how they do it matters as well, for the long- term, for their own security”.
In March, President Joe Biden said that “you cannot have 30, 000 more Palestinians dead as a consequence of going after] Hamas ]”.
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