US Secretary Of State Antony Blinken Heckled Over Israel-Hamas Conflict During Gaza Press Briefing
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was giving his final comments from his department’s press briefing room, touting the Biden administration’s help brokering a ceasefire deal in Gaza, when he was interrupted by two journalists.
They shouted at America’s top diplomat, accusing him of complicity in Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians in Gaza. One of the men shouted repeatedly, “Why aren’t you in the Hague?” a reference to the world’s top war-crimes court.
Blinken stopped his opening comments, asked them to “respect the process" and said he would take questions momentarily. Both men were physically removed by diplomatic security.
He and other members of the Biden administration have faced criticism for not imposing meaningful restrictions on the supply of weapons to Israel or pushing its key ally hard enough to ease a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Israel’s military offensive against Hamas militants, who triggered the war with their Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack, killing some 1,200 people, has leveled vast swaths of Gaza and pushed around 90% of the population of 2.3 million from their homes. Hundreds of thousands are struggling with hunger and disease in squalid tent camps on the coast.
The campaign has killed over 46,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and militants but say women and children make up more than half of those killed.
After recovering from the interruptions, Blinken said in response to other questions that the U.S. has had “real differences" with Israel in how it has gone about defending its people and has “expressed those clearly at various points.”
But “we’ve mostly done it privately, precisely because we didn’t want to feed into Hamas’ clearly held views that if that pressure was mounting, and if there was daylight, they could do nothing," Blinken said. That "they could refuse to engage on the negotiations, hold back on a ceasefire and releasing the hostages, and thus perpetuate the suffering, the loss for the people that they purport to represent.”
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