Joel Gehrke is foreign affairs reporter for the Washington Examiner, with an emphasis on U.S. competition with China and Russia, Middle East policy following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the crisis in Venezuela. Previously, he covered domestic politics for National Review Online.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres aired a “blood libel” against Israel, according to senior Israeli officials infuriated by his suggestion that Hamas murdered civilians in retaliation for the Jewish state's"suffocating occupation" of Palestinian territory.
“There is no middle line: If you don’t stand with Israel today, you are a supporter of Hamas,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said at the press conference. Israeli officials deny that they have imposed any “collective punishment,” condemning instead Hamas for the use of human shields, and Guterres’s statement drew an immediate rebuttal from Cohen, who also spoke in the Security Council meeting.
“I live in a different universe than all of you,” said Rachel Goldberg, a Chicago native with dual Israeli citizenship whose son was kidnapped after losing his left arm in the Hamas attack on the music festival. “This is a global humanitarian catastrophe, and the hatred being showered on Israel … Israel gives warnings to civilians in Gaza to relocate before they strike, but there were no warnings given to the women, the children, the elderly, the music lovers, and the babies on Oct.
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