Gaza children lose parents – Associated Press
Middle East
Israeli Foreign Ministry: We reject any cooperation with the International Criminal Court regarding the war on Gaza
As the war in Gaza continues for more than a month and a half, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN that Israel’s tearing down of the Indonesian hospital in Gaza is “fully consistent with international law.”
Ofir Falk added to the American network on Monday that “the Israeli shooting at the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza was proportionate.”
He added that the military is committed to respecting “international law, proportionality and discrimination, and that there is a clear military need to eliminate Hamas, and this is exactly what we are doing.” He stressed that Israeli forces “clearly distinguish between civilians and terrorist elements,” as he put it, during their efforts “to destroy Hamas.”
“Israel will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court.”
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Ben Dor announced that Israel will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court. Ben Dor said: “We do not trust investigative committees, since they present a program known in advance and we know before starting the investigation what its conclusions will be. We have experience after the 2009 Gaza war, when the Goldstone Fact-The Research Committee was formed by the United Nations Human Rights Council and we did not recognize its report, so our position is known. We will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court. We defend the rights of our citizens and fight terrorism. No , we will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court.”
He added: “I know the death toll is 12,000 or more, but the mission of Israel and its army is to protect its citizens who have been killed and raped, and the responsibility to protect Palestinians in Gaza is the country’s responsibility authorities there, and Hamas and its organizations are protecting themselves in fortified underground tunnels.”
Your browser does not support HTML5 videos
According to the Palestinian News Agency, 12 people were killed following an Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the hospital. Palestinian officials said the dead included patients and medical staff.
The agency reported that 200 injured people arrived at the Al-Shifa medical complex in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, after being evacuated from the Indonesian hospital at midnight on Monday, and that another 500 were still hospitalized in the hospital located in the north of the Gaza Strip. the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had stressed that his country would not stop fighting in Gaza until it returned those detained by Hamas and destroyed the movement.
Netanyahu said after meeting with the families of the hostages on Monday that he will “not rest his mind” until detainees held by Hamas in Gaza are returned, stressing that “this is his responsibility and the responsibility of the government of war”. as reported by the Times of Israel newspaper.
He also added: “We will not stop fighting until we bring our detainees home, destroy Hamas and make sure there are no threats from Gaza.”