White House Urges Israel Not To 'Take Military Action That Would Put Civilians In Harms Way' In Gaza

On Wednesday, NSC Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby answered reporter questions on the safety of Gaza citizens throughout attacks during a White House Press Briefing.

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[ep]

Your not "involved" in the conflict. Hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons and 100, 000 troops in the middle east and giving israel a huge amount of weapons doesnt qualify as "involved?"

[sircasm]

Only Obama is allowed to do that without being called out for it

[MiamiBeachMama]

Hey Joe, Did you have theballs to admonished the terrorist to do the same?

[kimcissell]

Over 33.7 TRILLION dollars of unsustainable debt. 🤮😡🤑🤬collapse countdown. Is the Gov shutting down due to bankruptcy? Where is the BALANCED budget that was due in Sept ?? 💰🧐💵🤔

[RedneckAdonis]

America is looking for a way out. Plain and simple! As soon as it can figure out how to protect its investment, it's outta there. Guaranteed!

[jody]

I urge the White House not to do anything that causes Joe to soil his pants.

[margaretanderson]

I think that message should be aimed towards Hamas who uses schools and hospitals as shields. They didn’t attack Israeli troops, they attacked unarmed civilians in the most brutal and violent manner possible. Israel has always tried to avoid civil casualties to the point where they give fair warning, in advance, to civilians to get out of harm’s way.

[shirleymatthews]

It's called casualties of war it's sad but it happens in every war

[leannsherman]

At long last, somebody finally asked about other countries opening their borders to give the civilians safe passage during this war. I was not thrilled with John Kirby’s answer, however.

[barbaraarianajones]

What you need to do is TELL the Israeli govt that ALL $ and military support will be withdrawn immediately, if they don’t comply with the cessation of civilian targeting demand! Forget about ASKING them!!!

[cheyennefick]

Tell Biden they told them to leave or take cover good luck to the one's who stay

[bswogger]

The dropping fliers why not tell that other government to figure out migrant issues until the fighting is done.
Their leaders sign treaty’s then 10 months laters thousands of
m!sisiles, so they lie or leader has control might be both.

[peekaboo]

What celebrities or VIPs did they inbed with Hamas?

[Noname-hslx]

It’s your money ! Is it just for bombe

[naderhaidar]

everybody's focus should be on stopping the war in Gaza, this is no time for politics, both innocent palestinian and israeli lives have been lost, efforts should go towards restarting the peace process, this requires a lot of hard work, there is a lot of pain on both sides, it will take some time to heal those wounds, but peace should always be our goal

[andrewharvey]

Kirby is starting to change his tone. Israel is trying to displace 2 million people and he's telling them no we will not support that