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Tue 19 Mar 2024 2:16 pm - Jerusalem Time

Biden knew that Israel was bombing civilian targets in Gaza

The Washington Post reported Monday that Biden administration officials knew last October that Israel was bombing buildings in Gaza without having "strong intelligence" that they were military targets and continued to provide full support for Israeli military operations anyway.


The report said that a meeting was held at the White House on October 27, three weeks after the start of the brutal Israeli military bombing of Gaza due to massive destruction, as it was clear that Israel was bombing the Strip indiscriminately, and a report from +972 magazine published in October revealed. The second is that Israel was in fact deliberately striking civilian targets.


Israeli intelligence sources told +972 that Israel targeted what it called “energy targets,” which include civilian infrastructure, such as high-rise residential buildings, banks, universities and other public buildings. The sources said that the Israeli army also approved the strikes, which were known to lead to the killing of large numbers of civilians, in an attempt to target only one member of the Hamas movement.


Biden officials also acknowledged during the October 27 meeting that Israel does not have a clear plan on how to defeat Hamas. A source familiar with the meeting told the newspaper: “We never had a clear sense that the Israelis had a specific, achievable military goal, and from the beginning, there was a feeling that we did not know how the Israelis would implement what they said they would do.”


US intelligence has since acknowledged that Hamas will not end or disappear. An annual "threat assessment" released publicly by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence this month said Israel "will likely face prolonged armed resistance from Hamas for years to come."


Despite the lack of a realistic target and the heavy civilian casualties, President Biden still continues to provide unconditional military assistance to the massacre. Since October 7, his administration has approved the sale of more than 100 arms deals to Israel, of which only two were reported to Congress.

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