Blinken delivers some of the strongest US public criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza

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Blinken delivers some of the strongest US public criticism of *******’s conduct of the war in Gaza

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Secretary of State

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on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of

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of the

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, saying ******** tactics have meant “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians” but ******* to neutralize ****** leaders and fighters and could drive a lasting insurgency.

In a pair of TV interviews, Blinken underscored that the ******* States believes ******** forces should “get out of Gaza,” but also is waiting to see credible plans from ******* for security and governance in the territory after the war.

****** has reemerged in parts of Gaza, Blinken said, and that “heavy action” by ******** forces in the

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risks leaving America’s closest ******** ally “holding the bag on an enduring insurgency.”

He said the ******* States has worked with ***** countries and others for weeks on developing “credible plans for security, for governance, for rebuilding” in Gaza, but ”we haven’t seen that come from *******. … We need to see that, too.”

Blinken also said that as ******* pushes deeper in Rafah in the south, where ******* says ****** has four battalions and where more than 1 million civilians have massed, a military operation may “have some initial success” but risks “terrible harm” to the population without solving a problem “that both of us want to solve, which is making sure ****** cannot again govern Gaza.”

*******’s conduct of the war, he said, has put the country “on the trajectory, potentially, to inherit an insurgency with many armed ****** left or, if it leaves, a vacuum filled by chaos, filled by anarchy, and probably refilled by ******. We’ve been talking to them about a much better way of getting an enduring result, enduring security.”

Blinken also echoed for the first time publicly by a U.S. official

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to Congress on Friday that said *******’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law. The report also said wartime conditions prevented ********* officials from determining that for certain in specific airstrikes.

“When it comes to the use of weapons, concerns about incidents where given the totality of the damage that’s been done to children, women, men, it was reasonable to assess that, in certain instances, ******* acted in ways that are not consistent with international humanitarian law,” Blinken said. He cited “the horrible loss of life of innocent civilians.”

The war began on Oct. 7 after an ******* against ******* by ****** that ******* 1,200 people, mostly civilians. About 250 people were taken ********. *******’s offensive has ******* more than 35,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in Gaza.

U.S. and U.N. officials say ******** restrictions on food shipments since Oct. 7 have brought on full-fledged famine in northern Gaza.

Tensions between Biden and ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about how the war, as well as domestic tensions about U.S. support for ******* with protests on U.S. college campuses and many *********** lawmakers saying that Biden needs to give ******* whatever it needs. The issue could play a major role in the outcome of November’s presidential election.

Biden said in an interview last week with CNN that his administration would not provide weapons that ******* could use for an all-out ******** in Rafah.

Blinken appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

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