CNN’s Wolf Blitzer confronted an Israeli Defence Forces official over the bombing of a refugee camp in Gaza, which killed dozens of civilians.
IDF officials defended Tuesday’s attack on the Jabalia refugee camp, claiming that
the purpose of the operation was to target Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari, and therefore, the bombing was justified. The airstrike killed 50 people and injured 150 others, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Mr Blitzer asked IDF spokesperson Lt Col Richard Hecht if the camp had been targeted despite the knowledge that civilians would be killed.
“But even if that Hamas commander was there amidst all those Palestinian refugees…
Israel still went ahead and dropped a bomb there attempting to kill the Hamas commander, knowing that a lot of innocent civilians — men, women and children — presumably would be killed? Is that what I’m hearing?” Mr Blitzer said.
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Lt Col Hecht said, “That’s not what you are hearing, Wolf.
We, again, were focused on this commander, again, who you’ll get more data who this man was. Killed, many, many Israelis. And we’re doing everything we can. It’s a very complicated battle space. There could be infrastructure there. There could be tunnels there.”
Mr Blitzer then once again pressed Mr Hecht to focus on the innocent refugees who lost their lives as a result of the bombing. The IDF spokesperson replied,
“This is the tragedy of war, Wolf.” He said they had warned people in Gaza to move south.
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