It will be Iran funding it.
They channel funds to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. Not to mention the Youthis in Yemen.
The worrying this is Amnesty International seem to have been arming Hamas too. Surely this wrong?
Ruth Michaelson
A senior spokesperson from the militant Palestinian group
Hamas said it was not attacking civilians, despite claims by Amnesty International and other rights groups.
Fighters from Hamas’s armed wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, yesterday launched an unprecedented incursion into territories around the
Gaza strip, capturing at least 100 Israelis, according to Hamas.
Footage circulating on social media showed terrified captives, including mothers huddling with their children, in the custody of Palestinian militant groups.
Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary general, said yesterday: “We are deeply alarmed by the mounting civilian death tolls in
Gaza, Israel and the occupied West Bank and urgently call on all parties to the conflict to abide by international law and make every effort to avoid further civilian bloodshed. Under international humanitarian law all sides in a conflict have a clear obligation to protect the lives of civilians caught up in the hostilities.”
Responding today while speaking to Al Jazeera, the senior Hamas spokesperson Osama Hamdan said his group was not attacking civilians.
“You have to differentiate between settlers and civilians. Settlers attacked Palestinians … We hope that Amnesty has humility to send us more developed weapons to attack only the soldiers,” he said, per Al Jazeera.
Hamdan claimed that civilians living across towns near the Israeli border with Gaza, which has long hemmed in more than 2 million people, could also be considered settlers, comparable to the hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers living across
Palestinian territories in the West Bank.
“We are not targeting civilians on purpose. We have declared settlers are part of the occupation and part of the armed Israeli force. They are not civilians,” he said.
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