The warning came on the seventh day of Israel’s war against Hamas.
Israel’s deliberate targeting of civilians, indiscriminate rocket attacks, and cutting off water, power and fuel supply to Palestine, home to more than 2 million people, is a possible war crime, New York-based Human Rights Watch reported.
Also, Israel’s military on Friday called for the evacuation of Palestinians from the northern Gaza strip to southern Gaza, in a move the UN said would affect 1.1 million people and could result in a “calamitous situation”. Speaking on this order, Tom Dannenbaum, a foreign affairs analyst in the US said: “The population of Gaza is a civilian population. Clearly, there are Hamas fighters in Gaza and, equally clearly, those individuals are combatants or direct participants in hostilities. They lack civilian protection.
A visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, along with shipments of US weapons, offered a powerful green light to Israel to drive ahead with its retaliation in Gaza, even as international aid groups warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis. In a message posted on X , US Parliament member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said: “This is collective punishment and a violation of international law. We cannot starve nearly a million children to death over the horrific actions of Hamas, whose disregard for Israeli, Palestinian, and human life overall could not be more clear. We must draw a line.”Israel has been reported to use white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, putting civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries.
The US and its allies have not condemned Israel for using White Phosphorus or starving the Gaza population and denying them basic rights but it repeatedly pledged its support for Israel following the Hamas attack.“You may be strong enough on your own to defend yourselves, but as long as America exists, you will never have to,” Mr Blinken said after meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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