The United States urges Israel to conduct precision strikes to avoid damage to civilian infrastructure, amid bipartisan concern
over Palestinian casualties as Israel prepares to continue military operations after a temporary ceasefire.
The U.S. call
for a change in IDF tactics in Gaza comes after the Israeli leadership made it clear that it
will resume the campaign after the end of the ceasefire. This was reported by The Wall Street
Journal, reported by UNN.
Details
US calls on
Israel to change its plans for the next phase of the campaign in Gaza, drawing attention to
better protection of civilians. Attempts
The US attempts to force Israel to wage a more targeted war, as the publication points out,
indicates a shift away from President Biden's full support for the campaign to
ousting Hamas, which he provided at the beginning, and is allegedly the subject of intensive consultations between
intensive consultations between Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
on how to resolve the conflict.
The number of
of civilian deaths - more than 15,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children - has caused
of them women and children - has raised concerns among some Democratic lawmakers and
part of Biden's political base. Accordingly, the Biden administration
calls on Israelis to conduct airstrikes with precision munitions, ensuring that civilian infrastructure, such as hospitals
electricity and sewage networks.
In turn, the leadership of
Israel's leadership signals that it will resume the campaign after the ceasefire ends,
extended until Thursday.
We are preparing for the next stages of the war and for the expansion of the maneuver in the Gaza Strip as a whole. (...) There will be no refuge for terrorists and Hamas leaders
A senior Biden administration official told
Biden administration official told the publication that the White House also rejected
Israel's plan to move most of Gaza's civilian population to a narrow
"safe zone" in the Al-Mawassi area near the coast. The argument was that this
area is too small and barren to accommodate the many thousands of civilians
who have already been evicted, is also claimed by the UN.
You cannot have the scale of displacement that took place in the north repeated in the south. It would be more than devastating. It will be beyond the scope of any humanitarian support network, no matter how strong it is
In addition, the US
asks Israel to designate areas near UN facilities or other protected infrastructure as safe havens.
infrastructure as shelters for civilians, and also draws attention to the provision of humanitarian
humanitarian assistance to the approximately two million civilians under siege in Gaza.
Israeli
officials have made it clear that they remain committed to eliminating
Hamas's control over Gaza and to destroy the group, as they told their
American counterparts of their expectations that the next phase of the Gaza operation
would unfold differently than in the first weeks of the war.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State
Anthony Blinken is scheduled to arrive in Israel this week, and is expected to expand on the administration's message,
he is expected to expand on the Biden administration's message.