The United States said on Monday that it believes Israelis "do attempt to minimize civilian casualties," in Gaza, as the State Department put it, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
"They’ve talked about that publicly. We think there are additional steps that they can take," Spokesperson Matthew Miller told TURAN's correspondent during a daily briefing.
According to him, Secretary Bliken communicated those steps 'very clearly' when he was in Israel, "and we’ve had continued ongoing conversations with them about that."
Miller's comments came as the fighting around medical facilities raises major concerns about the laws of war. Hospitals are off-limits during the war, though special protection can be lost if the sites are used for harmful acts in a conflict.
When asked by TURAN if there was any active discussion over creating field hospitals and potentially U.S. involvement in it, Miller said, "not U.S. involvement inside Gaza, but yes, there have been conversations with our allies and partners about setting up additional field hospitals."
He went on to elaborate, "there’s been conversations about setting up additional facilities where people either in southern Gaza, or people who have moved to southern Gaza from the north, can seek medical care. ...There are wounded Palestinians from northern Gaza who have been evacuated and left through Rafah gate to seek medical care. So yes, that is something we continue to work on."
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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"Black Monday in Georgia: Police and special forces guard the doors behind which the 'slaves of Georgian Dream' are destroying our Constitution and mocking our Parliament." This is how Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili commented on the convening of the new parliament on Monday, which is not recognized by the opposition.
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