2023-11-11 02:35:00
According to the American newspaper, this confidence in Palestinian data is a partial change by the Biden Administration in the face of the conflict.
This is because, when the Palestinian movement Hamas—which controls the Palestinian enclave—accused that an Israeli airstrike killed 500 people in a Gaza hospital compound, President Joe Biden questioned the accuracy of the data.
While intelligence authorities in both Tel Aviv and Washington said that the explosion was caused by a failed rocket fired by the Hamas movement itself.
However, this week Washington’s Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, testified on Capitol Hill that the death toll in Gaza might be even higher than has been reported, the WSJ. “We think it’s very high, frankly, and it might be even higher,” she said.
Since October 9, Israel has kept the Palestinian enclave without basic supplies, although six days later it restarted the water supply to southern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are moving these days.
To date, hostilities have caused more than 1,400 deaths and almost 5,500 injuries in Israel, as well as more than 11,000 deadincluding more than 4,500 girls and boys, and more than 27,400 injured in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest official data.
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