Obama Administration Defense Secretary: Israelis shoot first and ask questions later!
The US Secretary of Defense in the Barack Obama administration said: “It is not surprising that the Israelis admitted their mistake after the recent deadly airstrike on the aid workers of the World Central Kitchen, because in my experience they usually shoot first and ask questions later.” questions!".
Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama's defense secretary and former CIA chief, told CNN: "You need to take the time to make sure the information you're getting is accurate about the targets. But the same can't be said for the Israelis. In my experience, they usually They shoot first and ask questions later."
The former US defense secretary's statement came days after a deadly airstrike targeting World Central Kitchen workers in the Gaza Strip, which killed seven aid workers.
Jimmy McGoldrick, the UN humanitarian coordinator for occupied Palestine, noted that more than half of Gazans are at risk of imminent starvation, and chronic malnutrition among children in Gaza has reached serious and essentially unprecedented proportions.
McGoldrick, noting that the Gaza famine is killing people like a "silent bomb", with children, pregnant women and the elderly at greater risk of death than others, stressed that the famine is as aggressive and deadly as bombs and missiles, except which is not accompanied by a roar.
Earlier, James Elder, a representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), said that hundreds of thousands of hungry children in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, were surrounded and under military attack.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) also noted in its statement that the situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic, the food security situation in the Gaza Strip has reached an acute stage, and famine is claiming the lives of innocent people.
More than half the population of the Gaza Strip, more than a million people, are suffering from catastrophic famine, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters on Friday.
"More than half the population (more than a million people) suffer from catastrophic hunger. Today, children in the Gaza Strip are dying due to lack of food and water. This is incomprehensible and completely avoidable. Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people," he said Guterres.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip also announced that more than 43,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip have lost one or both parents. According to these statistics, women and children account for 70% of those missing from the war in the Gaza Strip.
The victims of the aggression of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip since October 7 and the beginning of this bloody war have been 33,137 dead and 75,815 wounded.
