Joel Gehrke is foreign affairs reporter for the Washington Examiner, with an emphasis on U.S. competition with China and Russia, Middle East policy following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the crisis in Venezuela. Previously, he covered domestic politics for National Review Online.
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza entails “clear violations of international law,” according to the top United Nations official, who called for an “immediate ceasefire” as civilian casualties mount in the war against Hamas.
President Joe Biden, who traveled to Israel last week following a cavalcade of other visits by senior U.S. officials, has adopted a more supportive posture in public while signaling that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to curb civilian casualties. “Israel is in the midst of a war that was launched by the Hamas terror group. It already regrets it,” IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said on Tuesday. “And every minute that passes on the other side, we strike the enemy even more: killing terrorists, destroying infrastructure, collecting more intelligence for the next stage. … This is our state, our home, and we will defend it by every means.
Israeli officials issued an evacuation order for the northern half of the Gaza Strip last week, but Hamas officials told the Palestinian civilians to ignore that order. Israeli forces, in any case, continue to conduct airstrikes around the area — including one that"hit a residential building some 200 meters from the U.N. headquarters in Rafah on Monday, killing and wounding several people, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.
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