WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States says it is “appalled” by the “disgraceful” shelling by Israel of a United Nations school sheltering some 3,000 displaced people in southern Gaza.
In language that was rare in its directness and severity, the U.S. denounced the attack earlier in the day that killed 10 people, noting that the school had been designated a protected location and the Israel Defense Forces had been informed numerous times of the school’s coordinates.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki (SAH’-kee) called on Israel to do “more to meet its own standards and avoid civilian casualties.”
The U.S. condemnation follows one by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who depicted the shelling near the Rafah school as both “a moral outrage and a criminal act.”
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Cue the outrage-at-Hamas “they do the same thing!” accusation, which begs the question whether there is any difference expected of conduct of a nation-state versus that a “terrorist organization.”
Just on the news it says" the Israel army were firing a motor shell at two men on a motorcycle,who happen to be riding pass the school "
A motor shell at two men on a motorcycle ?
Is this the same school where the Israelis claim to have found rockets what, two or is it three times?
OK Israel. Now would be a good time to make with the proof.
What? You went in there three times, found rockets, and nobody has any video? Israel has more Military Intelligence than that, Right?
Now, now, US government; you’re second-guessing Bibi again. Keep this up, and he’ll have to scold you again, but in front of a joint session of Congress!
A time capsule. That is where we ought to put all of our comments, all of the peace talks and diplomacy. Then open it every 5 or 10 years and recycle them, then back into the capsule for safekeeping until we need to make the same statements all over again.
We can’t shame or reason with people whose mission is absolute destruction of the other and who don’t care one iota about our opinions. This isn’t God’s country that we finance, it is the Devil’s playground, metaphorically speaking of course.
Eternal ME peace is a pipe dream, a figment of the imagination. We can’t buy it, it isn’t available and there is no technological cure. We have a better chance of fixing the climate change calamity and really, that is a more worthwhile effort.
This is base human hatred at it’s worst. We, at best, could reduce the suffering by ending our support and that should happen today, at worst.
What part of, we are being used, doesn’t our government get?