US airs frustration with Israel’s military about strikes in Gaza

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US airs frustration with *******’s military about strikes in Gaza

******* NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the ******* Nations on Monday accused *******’s military of

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, humanitarian workers and civilians in Gaza in a sign of growing ********* frustration with its close ally as the war approaches its first anniversary.

******* has repeatedly said it targets ****** militants, who often hide with civilians and use them as human shields, in retaliation for the Oct. 7 attacks in southern ******* that ******* about 1,200 people and launched the war in Gaza.

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield was unusually outspoken against the ******** military at a U.N. Security Council meeting, saying many of the

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that injured or ******* U.N. personnel and humanitarian workers “were preventable.”

Many council members cited last week’s ******** strike on a former school turned civilian shelter run by the

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, in which six UNRWA staffers were among at least 18 people *******, including women and children.

******* said it targeted a ****** command-and-control center in the compound, and *******’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, asserted Monday that ****** militants were ******* in the strike. He named four, claiming to the council that they worked for UNRWA during the day and ****** at night.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an independent investigation.

Thomas-Greenfield told council members that the U.S. will keep raising the need for ******* to facilitate humanitarian operations in the ************ territory and protect humanitarian workers and facilities like the UNRWA shelter.

She also reiterated U.S. “outrage” at

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, who was shot and ******* during a protest in the West Bank last week. ******** Defense Forces said it likely ******* Eygi by mistake, and the government has begun a ********* investigation.

“The IDF is a professional military and knows well how to ensure that incidents such as these do not happen,” the U.S. envoy said.

Thomas-Greenfield said the ******* States expects

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in their operations — including to their rules of engagement and procedures to ensure that military operations do not conflict with humanitarian activities and do

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and other civilian facilities.

“We have also been unequivocal in communicating to ******* that there is no basis — absolutely none — for its forces to be opening ***** on clearly marked U.N. vehicles as recently occurred on numerous occasions,” Thomas-Greenfield said.

At the same time, she said ****** is also hiding in — and in some cases, taking over or using — civilian sites, which poses “an ongoing threat.”

She said it underscores the urgency of reaching a cease-***** and ******** release deal in Gaza. While the ******* States works with fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar to try to get both sides “to agree that enough is enough,” she said, “this is ultimately a

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and difficult compromises.

Secretary of State Antony

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for talks partly about refining a proposal to present to ******* and ******.

The ******* States urges “all council members with influence over ****** to join others in pressing its leaders to stop stalling, make these compromises, and accept the deal without delay,” Thomas-Greenfield.

She spoke after the top U.N. humanitarian official in Gaza said the territory is “***** on Earth” for its more than 2 million people, calling the lack of effective protection for civilians “unconscionable.”

Sigrid Kaag, the U.N. senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza, told council members and reporters that

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“into the abyss.”

Over 41,000 Palestinians have been ******* during *******’s offensive, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants.

Humanitarian operations are being impeded by lawlessness, ******** evacuation orders, fighting and difficult conditions for aid workers that include ******** denials of access, delays, a lack of safety and security, and “poor logistical infrastructure,” Kaag said.

Danon insisted that *******’s humanitarian efforts “are unparalleled” for a country forced to go to war and urged the Security Council and the U.N. “to speak to the facts.”

Over 1 million tons of aid have been delivered via more than 50,000 trucks and nearly 1 million land crossings, he said, adding that hardly a fraction have been stopped.

When asked about Danon’s statement, Kaag pointed to recent strikes on humanitarian convoys and schools and health facilities where ******* had received prior notification.

“It’s not about trucks. It’s about what people need,” she said. “We’re way, way off what people need, not only daily, but also what we would all consider a dignified human life.”

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