The US’s lack of response on the humanitarian conditions for Palestinians is not only ineffective and counterproductive, but we are also being accused of being complicit to potential war crimes by remaining silent on Israel’s actions against civilians,
The messages also show internal pressure in the Biden administration to shift its messaging from showing solidarity with Israel to including sympathy for Palestinians and the need to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza,
Their main line is that it is impossible for one million civilians to move this fast,
If this course is not quickly reversed by not only messaging, but action, it risks damaging our stance in the region for years to come,
We need GOI (Government of Israel) to pump the brakes in pushing people south,
Israel has a moral imperative to mitigate the harm of its operations to civilians, something we have emphasized both publicly and privately,
If we’re inclined to weigh in with the Israelis to dissuade them from seeking mass evacuations, we will have to do it soon, at a high level and at multiple touch points,
Our assessment is that there’s simply no way to have this scale of a displacement without creating a humanitarian catastrophe,
Israel is a democracy that adheres to international law,
And I'm not talking about a congenial Oxford University style debate. This is rape, maim, murder, pillage – the most unbelievable dark forces that humanity has encountered in millennia,
There’s no justification for destroying a structure if the enemy isn’t in it,
Torture is one of the most serious international crimes … Very often, though, it’s difficult to get evidence … This kind of material where you have persons on camera admitting that they have participated in torture would be very useful to any investigator or a prosecutor,
The fact that they’ve been able to rig these buildings up with explosives shows very clearly that there’s no current threat from those buildings,
They took my son, the eldest, who had just been married,
We live in an era of technology, and this has been described as the first livestreamed genocide in history,
Nothing prevents us from killing you. We could just kill you all. That’s normal. No one will deter us, and no one will call us to account.”
Look, I’m going to show you his back. You’re going to laugh at this. He was tortured.”
The attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, was not just a declaration of war against Israel and the Jewish people, it was also a declaration of war against all of humanity,