Top 5 Ways the US is Israel's Accomplice in War Crimes in Gaza | Informed Comment
“The United States is appalled by today’s disgraceful
shelling outside an UNRWA school in Rafah sheltering some 3,000
displaced persons, in which ten more Palestinian civilians were
tragically killed,” reads the statement from State Department
spokesperson Jen Psaki. “We once again stress that Israel do more to
meet its own standards and avoid civilian casualties.”
As for the standard Israeli military pretext for such war crimes,
that Hamas was hiding out in the school or firing from the school, no
reporter on the ground has seen any evidence of any such activity by
Hamas in schools where there are people. Then the Israeli military
obfuscates things by saying that Hamas was “in the area.” Since Gaza is
so small, I suppose they are in the area of almost everything. But the
State Department didn’t let Tel Aviv off the hook this time: “The
suspicion that militants are operating nearby does not justify strikes
that put at risk the lives of so many innocent civilians.”
