GENOCIDE MUST GO ON: Israel Rejects Biden's Call for 'Pause' in Gaza
His comments came as news emerged that a UN school inside the Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza was bombed, killing at least 20.
Michael Herzog, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., rejected President Joe Biden’s call for a “pause” in Gaza as Israel continues to bomb the city.
“I don’t know what temporary pauses or humanitarian pauses means,” he said in an interview with The Hill, according to The New York Post. “People talk about a ceasefire. It is not going to happen because we are not going to stop our war efforts to destroy the Hamas war machine.”
His comments came as news emerged that a UN school inside the Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza was bombed, killing at least 20.
Herzog told the news outlet that Israel is in the middle of a war and it needs to finish the job to make sure that “Hamas cannot threaten us again.
“While we are doing it again, we have an obligation to provide humanitarian solutions on the ground. We are doing it … I don’t exactly know what a pause means,” he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he plans on addressing the issue of civilian casualties with Israeli leadership during his next visit to the country.
“When I see a Palestinian child, a boy or a girl pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child in Israel or anywhere else. So this is something that we have an obligation to respond to, and we will,” he said, according to CNN.
We’ve noted that Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., told U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Wednesday that Israel killed six times more children in Gaza within three weeks than Russia did during its nearly 2-year war in Ukraine.
Van Hollen told the former Raytheon board member that in the first six days of the war, Israel dropped 6,000 bombs on the Gaza Strip.
“Israel has stopped reporting the number of bombs dropped, but the intense pace continues,” he said. “Last night, my wife and I learned that someone we know well lost two family members and four of their children in the bombing in Gaza…So they are not yet included in the most recent death toll, reported by the United Nations yesterday, which said the number of dead has risen to over 8,300 people, 70 percent of them women and children, including 3,457 children. According to UN figures, that is about six times more children killed in three weeks in Gaza than the number of children killed in Ukraine during the entire war there,” he said.