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US response on Israel’s use of precision weapons after World Central Kitchen attack
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The United States said it is difficult to fight in a densely populated environment after Israel attacked the US-based food charity World Central Kitchen killing seven aid workers, six of whom were foreign nationals.
“Fighting in an urban and condensed environment, its tough. But they [Israel] have taken precise strikes against Hamas in Gaza; they have also taken strikes that have been not precise. It looks very clearly that what happened yesterday was one of those examples,” White House spokesperson, John Kirby told Al Arabiya reporter Nadia Bilbassy.
Watch: In response to Al Arabiya’s @nadia_bilbassy on the Israeli killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza despite use of precision weapons in Syria and Lebanon, US NSC Spokesperson John Kirby says “its tough” to fight in a densely populated environment.#Israel #Gaza pic.twitter.com/r7ugAuAOuj
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) April 3, 2024
His comments came in response to Bilbassy’s question on Israel assigning the mass civilian casualties in Gaza on the region’s high population density and military errors, but at the same time carrying out precision strikes against Hamas leaders in other areas such as Beirut, which are also packed with civilians.
Israel described the killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza as “grave mistake,” caused by nighttime “misidentification.”
Kirby said the US expects Israel to investigate the attack and “come clean” about what they have learned.
“They [Israel] will be fully transparent and the people that need to be held accountable will be held accountable.”
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The bodies of the six foreign aid workers were expected to be transported out of the war-torn Palestinian territory via Egypt on Wednesday as Israel faced a chorus of outrage over their deaths.
The seven deaths piled more pressure on Israel, whose war since the Hamas attack of October 7 has brought devastation and mass civilian casualties to Gaza, where the UN warns the population of 2.4 million is on the brink of famine.
US President Joe Biden charged that Israel “has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians” and called for a “swift” investigation into what he said was not a “stand-alone incident.”
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