National Security Adviser to the US President Jake Sullivan appeared on several programs on American television channels and spoke about Israel’s responsibility for protecting the civilian population of Gaza.
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On CNN, Sullivan said the Israeli government and military “must use every possible means available to them to distinguish between Hamas, terrorists who are a legitimate military target, and civilians, who are not a legitimate target.”
On ABC’s This Week, Sullivan noted that Hamas “hides behind the civilian population, which places an additional burden on Israel to differentiate between terrorists and innocent civilians, but this does not diminish them [Ізраїлю] responsibility in accordance with international humanitarian law and law. laws of war to do everything in their power to protect civilians.”
In an interview with CNN, Sullivan also said that Hamas is preventing foreign citizens, including American citizens, from leaving Gaza – not the hostages taken on October 7, but those who were there voluntarily at the time of the attack on Israel.
Hamas has made “a number of demands” that it cannot disclose publicly, and “negotiations” are ongoing on the issue, Sullivan said.
Fighting with Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip
The Israeli military reports clashes with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, in the north of the territory.
In its telegram channel, the IDF said it was continuing “ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip” and that clashes had occurred in the Gaza Strip with Hamas militants who opened fire on Israeli troops.
The terrorists who shot at Israeli soldiers were killed, as well as terrorists identified on the coast in the Gaza Strip in the Zikim area, the Israel Defense Forces reported on October 29.
Zikim is a kibbutz in southern Israel, located a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, the telegram channel of Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, reported a clash with Israeli troops in the Beit Lahiya area in the northern Gaza Strip, and stated that an ambush had been set up there.
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