Israel ‘very generously’ using high-tech US weaponry in Gaza
The US government should question Israel on the use of its munitions after a US-made “smart bomb” was dropped by Israel in an grisly attack on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, a military analyst says.
The air strike killed 36 displaced Palestinians, including 18 children and six women.
The Israeli military has been “very generously using these bombs against civilians”, Elijah Magnier told Al Jazeera.
Monday’s strike on the school was “really deliberate”, he added.
“There is no accountability and Israel can exert pressure on the Palestinians, starting with the civilians, to say ‘nowhere is safe’ and to say ‘you have to turn against Hamas or we will continue to kill more of you’,” Magnier said.
The United States should “question” Israel about the use of these high-tech weapons on the Palestinian people, he added.
Israel’s ‘mass murder on industrial scale’ must be halted: US group
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has denounced Israel’s devastating war on Gaza after the official death toll surpassed 54,000 – the majority of victims children, women, and the elderly.
“The Israeli government’s mass murder on an industrial scale must be stopped. The world can no longer sit back and watch the brutal extirpation of a population and the erasure of their legacy,” said Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, in a statement.
“The Israeli government is not interested in peace. It is time for the United States and the rest of the nations of the world to force them to stop these atrocities.”
It is widely believed that the death toll in Gaza is far higher than the official count. Awad noted the medical journal The Lancet estimated about 186,000 may have died since Israel’s invasion of Gaza in October 2023.
Hundreds of Israeli army officers sign letter demanding end to ‘immoral’ war: Report
Hundreds of active and reserve Israeli army officers have prepared an open letter urging the Israeli government and military leadership to halt the war in Gaza, labelling it a political conflict that “doesn’t serve Israel’s national security and is therefore immoral”, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The letter, which has garnered approximately 1,200 signatures from reservists and active-duty officers across various military units, demands an immediate cessation of hostilities and the safe return of all captives.
“We, former and current reserve [army] officers and commanders, demand the government and chief of staff [Eyal Zamir] stop the political war in Gaza and immediately return all the hostages,” the letter states, as reported by Haaretz.
“Continuing the war goes against the will of an overwhelming majority of the public, will result in the deaths of hostages, [Israeli army] soldiers and innocent civilians, and may even lead to the commission of war crimes."
