Biden warns against the strategy of flooding Gaza tunnels: all civilian life is important

The American president, Joe Bidenwarned Israel this Tuesday about the impact that its strategy of flooding the tunnel complex Hamas in Linkwarning of the possibility that there may be hostages there and that each death of a civilian is important.

“It is said that it is certain that there are no hostages in these tunnels. I’m not sure, but I know that every civilian death is a tragedy.“, he said at a press conference in The White House together with its Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelensky.

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Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Israel began pumping seawater into the complex system of tunnels Hamas in Link in an attempt to destroy this underground infrastructure.

This measure, according to the newspaper and official North American sources, is one of several techniques that the Israeli army plans to end this network, which according to the Israelis is used by the Palestinian Islamic group as an ammunition depot and to move its fighters on the battlefield.

Joe Biden He added in his speech with Zelensky that “we must support Israel“because it is one”independent nation” and the “brutality and inhumanity” with which Hamas treated its population in its past attack October 7th It’s unprecedented.

However, he also said that he has made it clear to the Israelis that the safety of innocent Palestinians concerns him, hence the actions they take in their offensive.”They must be consistent in their attempt to do everything possible to prevent innocent Palestinian civilians from being injured and killed.”.

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It is not the only warning that Biden made to the Israeli prime minister this Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu.

At a private event in washington To raise funds for his re-election campaign in next year’s presidential elections, the Democratic president noted in the morning that Israel “is starting to lose support“by the bombings of Gaza strip and believed that Netanyahu should change government.

Source: Elcomercio

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