The US State Department expects Israel to release information about the estimated 40 people killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday at a UN school in Gaza where women and children were sheltering, spokesperson Matthew Miller said during a news briefing.
Pressuring Israeli gov’t and IDF to be transparent
“That’s why we’re pressing the government of Israel and the IDF to be completely transparent about what happened here,” he added. “We want to know the facts as much as anyone; that they have taken every step possible.”
The US has seen the IDF make improvements over time, Miller said, adding that if it bears true that this strike resulted in the deaths of 14 children, “the results aren’t where they need to be.”
“I think they want to show that they were actually killing militants, not civilians,” Miller said. “That doesn’t obviously obviate the chance that there might have also been civilians that were killed in this strike.”
