Joel Gehrke is foreign affairs reporter for the Washington Examiner, with an emphasis on U.S. competition with China and Russia, Middle East policy following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the crisis in Venezuela. Previously, he covered domestic politics for National Review Online.
Israeli forces must “distinguish between Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team emphasized on Monday amid an internal and allied backlash against Israel’s tactics in Gaza.
“We have been incredibly clear ... about the necessity of taking feasible precautions to avoid civilian harm, and we believe that that's especially true when it comes to children and refugees,” Patel said. “Hamas continues to use civilian shields, and Hamas continues to put their infrastructure and their rockets in places in civilian areas.
“We must publicly criticize Israel’s violations of international norms such as failure to limit offensive operations to legitimate military targets,” a dissent memo obtained by Politico states. “When Israel supports settler violence and illegal land seizures or employs excessive use of force against Palestinians, we must communicate publicly that this goes against our American values so that Israel does not act with impunity.
“Events on the ground indicate that under cover of war, settlers are carrying out such assaults virtually unchecked, with no one trying to stop them before, during or after the fact,” an Israeli human rights organization called B’Tselem has assessed, per the International Crisis Group.
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