Charlie Nash
Nov 19th, 2023,
Rami Igra, a former division chief for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, told CNN on Friday that there was no such thing as a “noncombatant population in the Gaza Strip” because “all of the Gazans voted for Hamas” and “most of the population in the Gaza strip are Hamas.”
During an appearance on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Igra told host Anderson Cooper:
As you will have seen in the last couple of weeks, the fighting is very surgical. It is slow. It is very methodical. We are trying not to reach any of the non-combatant population in the Gaza Strip. And I think that there is no way that we can eradicate the Hamas without dealing with most of its forces that have been— that have fled to the south. Now, again, one little note, “the non-combatant population in the Gaza Strip” is really a non-existent term because all of the Gazans voted for the Hamas, and as we have seen on the 7th of October, most of the population in the Gaza Strip are Hamas.
Igra concluded, “Nonetheless, we are treating them as non-combatants, we are treating them as regular civilians, and they are spared from the fighting.
Cooper did not push back on Igra’s remarks or to question him further, instead opting to move on to the next question.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s Gaza bombing campaign and war on Hamas since October 7, with nearly 5,000 of the victims reported to be children.
Rami Igra, a former division chief for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, told CNN on Friday that there was no such thing as a “noncombatant population in the Gaza Strip” because “all of the Gazans voted for Hamas” and “most of the population in the Gaza strip are Hamas.”
During an appearance on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Igra told host Anderson Cooper:
As you will have seen in the last couple of weeks, the fighting is very surgical. It is slow. It is very methodical. We are trying not to reach any of the non-combatant population in the Gaza Strip. And I think that there is no way that we can eradicate the Hamas without dealing with most of its forces that have been— that have fled to the south. Now, again, one little note, “the non-combatant population in the Gaza Strip” is really a non-existent term because all of the Gazans voted for the Hamas, and as we have seen on the 7th of October, most of the population in the Gaza Strip are Hamas.
Igra concluded, “Nonetheless, we are treating them as non-combatants, we are treating them as regular civilians, and they are spared from the fighting.
Cooper did not push back on Igra’s remarks or to question him further, instead opting to move on to the next question.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s Gaza bombing campaign and war on Hamas since October 7, with nearly 5,000 of the victims reported to be children.
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