LOADING ERROR LOADINGUS Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said on Saturday Israel risked a “strategic defeat” if it fails to protect civilian lives in Gaza during its war with Hamas, adding he had personally appealed to Israeli leaders to do so. “In this kind of a fight, the centre of gravity is the civilian population,” Austin said during the annual Reagan National Defence Forum in California. Israel resumed its bombardment of Gaza on Friday after a brief cease-fire ended. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel earlier this week as the US works to negotiate another pause in the war. John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator at the White House National Security Council, told NBC the Biden administration was working “really hour, hour by hour,” to see if it can get both sides “back to the table.”

Source: Huffington Post December 04, 2023 13:56 UTC