Hamas issued a press release celebrating the martyrdom of two fighters within the strike on Sunday, Kirby mentioned, a sign that Israel was making an attempt to go after Hamas in a “focused, exact method.”
“The Israelis have mentioned they used 37-pound bombs, precision-guided munitions,” Kirby mentioned. “Whether it is the truth is what they used, it’s actually indicative of an effort to be discreet and focused and exact. Now, clearly, this had tragic outcomes, and clearly that must be investigated.”
Requested whether or not Israel’s strikes might put Biden in a troublesome place, Kirby instructed reporters Tuesday that as an alternative there was an actual hazard that Israel might change into additional remoted from the worldwide neighborhood with the way by which it’s conducting operations. “So that is of concern, clearly, as a result of it isn’t in Israel’s finest curiosity,” Kirby mentioned. “And it isn’t in our greatest curiosity for Israel to change into more and more remoted on the world stage.”
The US administration’s response was criticised earlier Tuesday by human rights and Arab American teams.
“Sadly, due to President Biden’s insistence on sending extra bombs to allow Netanyahu’s battle crimes in Rafah, that is now as a lot an American genocide as it’s an Israeli genocide,” mentioned Nihad Awad, government director on the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
