International Courant
WASHINGTON
US Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan stated American forces didn’t help Israel in its operation to rescue 4 Israeli hostages, claiming that solely intelligence assist was offered.
“The US has been offering assist to Israel for a number of months in its efforts to assist determine the places of hostages in Gaza and to assist efforts to attempt to safe their rescue or restoration,” Sullivan stated in an interview with host Dana Bash on CNN’s State of the Union program that aired Sunday morning.
He declined to reply how the US helped particularly as a result of safety causes.
“I can solely simply say that we now have typically offered assist to the IDF in order that we are able to attempt to get all the hostages house, together with the American hostages who’re nonetheless being held,” Sullivan informed Bash.
“One factor I can say is that there have been no US forces, no US boots on the bottom concerned on this operation. We didn’t take part militarily on this operation,” he stated.
Pressed by Bash on whether or not the US was snug with how the mission was carried out, Sullivan known as for a diplomatic answer “the place there’s no want for navy operations to get each final hostage out.”
On Saturday, the Israeli military freed 4 hostages throughout a navy operation within the Nuseirat refugee camp within the central Gaza Strip.
The operation coincided with the killing of greater than 274 Palestinians and the harm of 700 others in a bombardment of the camp.
Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7 assault by the Palestinian group Hamas, regardless of a UN Safety Council decision demanding a right away cease-fire.
Greater than 37,000 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them girls and kids, and almost 84,500 others injured, in keeping with native well being authorities.
Eight months into the Israeli battle, huge tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of meals, clear water and drugs.
Israel stands accused of genocide on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, whose newest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to right away halt its operation within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the place over 1,000,000 Palestinians had sought refuge from the battle earlier than it was invaded on Could 6.
*Writing by Zehra Nur Duz
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