Israel’s war is on Palestinian people, not Hamas, says Palestine’s UK ambassador as death toll nears 3,000

Israel's war is on Palestinian people, not Hamas, says Palestine's UK ambassadorReuters

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00:00 We also need some perspective here. What we're seeing right now is not a war on Hamas,

00:06 but a war on the Palestinian people.

00:09 We also need some perspective here. What we're seeing right now is not a

00:15 war on Hamas, but a war on the Palestinian people.

00:20 The forced mass expulsion of one million people, the indiscriminate

00:29 war and bombings of civilian

00:32 infrastructure, schools,

00:35 medical centers, homes,

00:38 markets, and the prevention of the supply of water,

00:45 food, fuel,

00:49 electricity, and

00:51 medicine from reaching Gaza have already taken a terrible toll.

00:58 Official numbers this morning find more than

01:01 2,850 Palestinians killed in Gaza and the West Bank, and

01:08 some 12,000 injured. The real number is much higher.

01:15 Rescue teams have been unable to reach victims.

01:20 Some

01:23 have been targeted by Israeli bombardments, as you have followed.

01:28 When they tried to rescue the victims.