TEL AVIV — Israeli President Isaac Herzog said
on Friday that all citizens of Gaza are responsible for the attack Hamas
perpetrated in Israel last weekend that left over 1,400 people dead.
“It is an entire nation out there that is
responsible,” Herzog said at a press conference on Friday. “It is not true this
rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not
true. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime
which took over Gaza in a coup d’etat.”
Herzog’s comments follow Israel’s announcement
that it had directed the 1.1 million residents of northern Gaza to evacuate,
likely ahead of a ground invasion. Israel dropped thousands of flyers over
northern Gaza and left voice messages on Friday directing people to leave their
homes and flee south.
Human rights groups and the United Nations denounced the evacuation order.
“The United Nations considers it impossible
for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian
consequences,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said
in a statement. “The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order, if
confirmed, to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a
tragedy into a calamitous situation.”
“Ordering a million people in Gaza to evacuate, when there’s no safe place to go, is not an effective warning,” Clive
Baldwin, senior legal advisor to Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
“World leaders should speak up now before it is too late, he added.
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TEL AVIV — Israeli President
Isaac Herzog said
on Friday that all citizens of Gaza are responsible for the attack Hamas
perpetrated in Israel last weekend that left over 1,400 people dead.
“It is an entire nation out there that is
responsible,” Herzog said at a press conference on Friday. “It is not true this
rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not
true. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime
which took over
Gaza in a coup d’etat.”
Herzog’s comments follow Israel’s announcement
that it had directed the 1.1 million residents of northern Gaza to evacuate,
likely ahead of a ground invasion. Israel dropped thousands of flyers over
northern Gaza and left voice messages on Friday directing people to leave their
homes and flee south.
Human rights groups and the
United Nations denounced the evacuation order.
“The United Nations considers it impossible
for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian
consequences,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said
in a statement. “The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order, if
confirmed, to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a
tragedy into a calamitous situation.”
“
Ordering a million people in Gaza to evacuate, when there’s no safe place to go, is not an effective warning,” Clive
Baldwin, senior legal advisor to Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
“World leaders should speak up now before it is too late, he added.
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