‘Not Serious People’: Tom Cotton Rips John Kirby For Defending Biden’s ‘Climate Change’ Remarks Amid Hamas Attacks
Daily Caller
After Israel announced a "complete siege" on Gaza in response to the attack launched by Hamas over the weekend, Israel's energy minister said on Thursday that the blockade would not be lifted until all Israeli hostages are freed.
Some 150 people are believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza. A number of officials — including Turkish Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and members of the International Committee of the Red Cross — are reportedly in negotiations with the group in an attempt to secure the hostages' release.
"Humanitarian aid to Gaza?" Israel Katz, the Israeli energy minister, said on X, formerly known as Twitter. "No electrical switch will be turned on, no water pump will be opened and no fuel truck will enter until the Israeli abductees are returned home. Humanitarianism for humanitarianism. And no one can preach morality to us."
Following the scale of atrocities carried out by Hamas in Israel, Tel Aviv has every right to defend itself from terrorists, including taking proactive actions in Gaza to ensure these kinds of catastrophic attacks never happen again. Israel will not rest until the Hamas threat is eliminated.
The actions carried out by Israel are not singling out Hamas alone, but are exacting a collective punishment on Palestinians as a whole. An already-impoverished population of 2.3M people is now facing a humanitarian catastrophe of an epic scale.