Palestinian Ambassador to Austria Salah Abdul Shafi noted that the United States will be more resolute in calling on Israel to be more cautious in waging the war in Gaza. "I think the U.S. is seeing that the world's support for Israel is waning, and pressure is increasing 'from the streets,'" he told Sputnik. Americans are well aware that Arab and Muslim voices in the United States have political influence. The Americans will gradually call on Israel to be more careful in the war. ”
He added that he recently saw a report on CNN television that at least 40 percent of the rockets and bombs dropped by Israel on Gaza were not smart bombs. "On the contrary, they are 'blind bullets,' which means that Israel's claim that they were very careful and only hit Hamas targets is completely untrue," the Palestinian ambassador to Austria said. Israel has dropped about 30,000 tons of bombs on the Gaza Strip, equivalent to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, weighed 4.).4 tons, ** power estimated at 15,000 tons TNT equivalent). Yes, the Americans will be louder and louder on this issue. But sadly, for every day missed, more victims come along. ”
Speaking at a UN conference in Vienna on Thursday on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Abdul Shafi noted that a total of 26,667 people were killed or missing and 19,667 hospitalized** in the Gaza Strip, including 8,000 children, 6,200 women, 310 medical workers and 97 journalists, as previously reported. At the same time, the diplomat stressed that so many children have been killed in the last three months. He cited the following figures as a comparison: in 11 years of conflict in Syria, there were 120,000 children died;In the 12 years of conflict in Afghanistan, 8,099 children have died;7. in Yemen3,700 children have been killed in five years of conflict;During the 14 years of war in Iraq, 3,100 children died.