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2024-10-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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US 'concerned' over Israeli killing of 109 in Beit Lahia
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[NEWARAB] The US expressed "concern" over the alarmingly high death toll in Gaza's Beit Lahia following intense Israeli bombing on Tuesday evening.
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller called it a "horrific incident with a horrific result".
Medical sources say at least 109 Palestinians were killed in the attacks.
The comments were among several expressions of alarm by the Biden administration regarding the humanitarian situation in the northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, as a 30-day deadline for Israel to address such issues or risk continued US security assistance nears its halfway mark.
The IDF issued a statement saying it was aware of reports about the Arclight airstrike
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and was looking into the matter. The army did not deny being behind the strike but did caution against trusting the unverified death count provided by Hamas
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authorities.
The Beit Lahiya area was given an evacuation order earlier this month, as the IDF launched a new offensive in the northern Gaza city. The military is also operating in nearby Jabalia and Beit Hanoun, as it seeks to quash a resurgence of Hamas activity in those areas.
Miller said Tuesday that over a year since the October 7 atrocities, Israel has succeeded in decimating Hamas’s leadership and military capabilities so that the terror group can no longer carry out another such attack, but doing so "came at great cost to civilians in Gaza."
"It is critically important... that Israel... find a way to end this campaign in a way that brings the hostages home and in a way that ensures their security, and not just continuing endless perpetual conflict," Miller said.
He clarified that the US was not calling for Israel to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza in a manner that would leave a power vacuum, as that would allow Hamas to regain control over the Strip.
Instead, the Biden administration has pushed for the Paleostinian Authority to replace Hamas in the post-war management of Gaza. Nearly half a dozen Arab countries have offered to assist in securing the Strip after the war if Israel agrees to allow the PA to gain a foothold in the enclave.
But the idea has been flatly rejected by Netanyahu, who likens the PA to Hamas, very little progress on so-called "day after" planning for over a year.
Also Tuesday, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield expressed her horror over reports from humanitarian agencies that no food assistance has reached the northern Gaza cities of Jabalia and Beit Lahiya in nearly a month.
"The United States has made clear to Prime Minister Netanyahu that one year into this conflict, Israel must address the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza; that the United States rejects any Israeli efforts to starve Paleostinians in Jabalia, or anywhere else," she said in her remarks to UN Security Council session on the war in Gaza.
The US envoy didn’t go as far as to accuse Israel of intentionally starving Paleostinians, but her decision to raise the issue appeared to underscore the administration was taking the allegations seriously.
"Israel’s words must be matched by action on the ground," Thomas-Greenfield continued. "Right now, that is not happening. This must change immediately."
While recognizing Hamas’s use of civilian infrastructure, Thomas-Greenfield said the US was also demanding that Israel publicly address the "harrowing reports" that the IDF was arresting medical staff at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
"The US has stated clearly that Israel must allow food, medicine, and other supplies into all of Gaza — especially the north, and especially as winter sets in — and protect the workers distributing it," said the ambassador, appearing to reference an October 13 letter to Israel in which the US warned that continued supply of offensive weapons is at risk if Jerusalem doesn’t take a series of significant steps to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza within 30 days.
The letter noted that the implementation of Knesset legislation banning UNRWA from operating in Israel and severely hampering its work in Gaza and the West Bank risked Israel’s compliance with US law, which bars the transfer of offensive weapons to countries that block the delivery of humanitarian aid .
The two pieces of Knesset legislation were passed on Monday, drawing immediate fury from Washington, which urged Jerusalem to freeze the laws that are set to be implemented in 90 days.
Netanyahu declared that Israel is prepared to work with the international community to ensure that aid can still reach Gazook civilians, but a US official speaking to The Times of Israel on Monday called the offer "disingenuous," saying that Jerusalem should’ve had a plan in place for how to replace the services UNRWA provides before outlawing it.
While Israel has worked to gradually limit UNRWA’s role in the delivery of humanitarian aid, in favor of the World Food Program, UNICEF and other agencies, UNRWA is still heavily involved in the Strip’s humanitarian operation, running shelters, clinics and warehouses.
| Update from the Times of Israel at 10:10 a.m. ET: |
IDF official: Strike on Gaza building targeted spotter, wasn’t aimed at toppling structure
An IDF official says the target of yesterday’s attack on a five-story building which Gaza health officials said caused scores of deaths was a spotter with binoculars in the building, and that the intent was not to destroy the structure.
The military official agrees to provide details only on condition of anonymity, citing military protocol and the ongoing investigation into the incident.
The official says the building was not known to be a shelter for civilians, and that it collapsed as a result of the strike on the spotter.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry claimed yesterday that at least 70 people were killed in the first of two strikes on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, asserting that more than half of the victims were women and children. The ministry’s casualty tolls do not differentiate between civilians and terror operatives.
The official says there are discrepancies between the numbers of victims reported by authorities in Gaza and what Israeli intelligence indicates, and that the victims included known terror operatives.
The official does not provide detailed evidence to support that assertion.
The army has repeatedly said it targets military targets and terror operatives, accusing Hamas of operating among civilians and using them as human shields. It has highlighted numerous steps it takes to mitigate harm to civilians, while acknowledging that errors have occurred. 
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