The finger-pointing comes as a sign of growing American frustration with its closest ally as Tel Aviv’s genocidal war nears its first anniversary.
Israel has repeatedly claimed it targets Hamas members in retaliation for the Oct. 7 incursion of southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield was unusually outspoken against the Israeli military at a U.N. Security Council meeting, saying many of the strikes in recent weeks that injured or killed U.N. personnel and humanitarian workers “were preventable.”
Many council members cited last week’s Israeli strike on a former school turned civilian shelter run by the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, in which six UNRWA staffers were among at least 18 people killed, including women and children.
Israel claims it targeted an alleged Hamas command-and-control center in the compound and Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, asserted Monday that Hamas members were killed in the strike. He named four, accusing them of working for UNRWA during the day and Hamas at night without providing any substantial evidence.
Implement “fundamental changes”
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an independent investigation.
