Palestine condemns Israeli minister’s statement lead to starvation to Gazans

AFP, Xinhua, Reuters and Europa Press

The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, August 9, 2024, p. 27

Gaza. Israel announced yesterday its willingness to resume peace talks, hours after more than 18 Palestinians died when it bombed two schools in Gaza City, in an attack that its army justified by saying they were Hamas command centers.

The Palestinian Civil Defense said in a statement that fighter jets attacked Al Zahraa secondary school and the nearby Abdel Fatah Hamouda school with missiles, leaving at least 60 people injured and 40 missing.

It is clearly an attack against schools and safe civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip.said Mohammad al Mughayyir, spokesman for the institution.

The Israeli army reported that before the offensive Numerous measures were taken to mitigate the risk of harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions, surveillance and additional intelligence..

Israel’s allies and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) have condemned statements by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich after referring to a justifiable famine in Gaza.

“In today’s global reality, it is not possible to manage a war – no one will allow us to starve 2 million people – although this might be just and moral until they return the hostages,” Smotrich said at a conference supporting Jewish settlements.

The ANP Foreign Ministry indicated that these words support a genocidal policy in Gaza, which (Smotrich) boasts aboutand called on the international community to ban him from entering their countries.

The European Union and Great Britain have joined in condemning the ultra-nationalist’s remarks.

Netanyahu offers apology

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the magazine Time that regrets Hamas carried out its October 7 attack, and while it did not admit responsibility for the underlying causes of the attack, it did offer an apology.

“I deeply regret that something like this happened. You always look back and say: ‘Could we have done something to prevent this?’” The prime minister also rejected the idea of ​​leaving office soon, as thousands of protesters frequently demand on the streets of Israel.