The continuation of the massacres committed by Israel in Gaza after the seven-day ceasefire also provokes reactions from its closest ally, the United States.
The US administration is accelerating its calls on Israel to avoid causing further harm to Palestinian civilians in Gaza, where the death toll has exceeded 15,000. The statements made by senior American officials today included statements that the pressure exerted by Washington on Israel is increasing.
Speaking during the climate summit in Dubai, US Vice President Harris said that Israel has the right to defend itself, but international and humanitarian law must be respected. “Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed,” Harris said. “Frankly, the extent of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming out of Gaza are shocking.”
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin described Israel’s protection of civilians in Gaza as a “moral responsibility and strategic commitment.” “If you push them into the arms of the enemy, you turn a tactical victory into a strategic defeat,” Austin said at a defense forum in California.
Indicating that the United States will continue to stand with Israel, Austin also stated that they are pressuring Israeli officials to expand humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Israel takes the war to the southern Gaza Strip
In the war, which has entered its third day after the ceasefire, the Israeli army is forcing Palestinian civilians to migrate from some areas of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
As the number of casualties in Israeli army attacks on the Gaza Strip increases, Israel continues to force civilians to migrate from areas it previously claimed were “safe places.”
Army spokesman Avichai Adraee, in his statement in Arabic on social media, called on citizens to leave their homes. In his post, Adraee published a map of the places where the Gaza Strip was divided into “blocs” and called “evacuation zones” in preparation for the new phase of Israeli attacks.
The Israeli army targeted dozens of places in the besieged Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, and a large number of deaths and injuries occurred in the attacks.