‘PALESTINIANS ARE NOT HAMAS’: In their public statements, Biden administration officials from the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon all repeat the same talking point about the Israeli air campaign that has leveled large portions of Gaza and killed as many as 5,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including women and children.
Israel has a right to protect itself after the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas, which slaughtered 1,400 Israelis, U.S. officials all say. It has a professional army that is expected to abide by the international law of armed conflict, which requires warring parties to “distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives and accordingly direct their operations only against military objectives.”
