Blinken calls out other countries for not demanding Hamas surrender and ‘stop hiding behind civilians’ | CNN Politics
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called out other countries for not demanding Hamas surrender.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called out other countries for not demanding Hamas surrender.

“What is striking to me is that even as, again, we hear many countries urging the end to this conflict, which we would all like to see, I hear virtually no one saying – demanding of Hamas that it stop hiding behind civilians, that it lay down its arms, that it surrender. This is over tomorrow if Hamas does that. This would have been over a month ago, six weeks ago, if Hamas had done that,” Blinken said during a press briefing at the State Department Wednesday.

“How can it be that there are no demands made of the aggressor and only demands made of the victim,” Blinken went on to say.

The strong comments from Blinken come as the United Nations Security Council continues to negotiate a resolution calling for a suspension in fighting and encouraging more humanitarian aid into the beleaguered Gaza Strip, and as the United States’ support for the resolution remains unresolved.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      74·
      11 months ago

      Care to address which part wasn’t true instead of having to rely on insults?

      Aside from the rockets nothing he said was true and I just debunked it with facts. Not sure why these facts upset you so much.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          11 months ago

          I would link the sources like I have done a million times but instead let’s have you link the actual proof this time, since you always quickly hightail out to the next news article to spread IDF propganda when I link my proof instead of dating to respond to it.

          Or you know what let’s do 50/50

          https://news.yahoo.com/israel-social-security-data-reveals-111544492.html?guccounter=1

          The final death toll from the attack is now thought to be 695 Israeli civilians, including 36 children, as well as 373 security forces and 71 foreigners, giving a total of 1,139.

          (these deaths includes the IDF mass friendly fire on Kibbutzes and the festival)

    • Alsephina@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      You are a hamas supporter

      Saying that as if it’s a bad thing lmao. Of course you should support the people resisting an occupying force. They have been far more civil than Israel has ever been.