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FORMER COMMANDER OF BRITISH TROOPS: ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES IS THE WORLD’S MOST HUMAN ARMY

Brussels, January 31st, 2024 – No army takes more precaution than the Israel Defense forces in order to prevent civil casualties while their enemy, terrorist organization Hamas, does the exact opposite. By maximising the number of deaths among their own civilian population Hamas knows that at the end of the day the international community will scrutinise Israel while giving them (Hamas) a free pass. This way the international community, especially the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, is incentivizing terrorist organizations around the world. Western governments should instead support Israel, their natural ally, in their battle against this EU-listed terrorist organisation.

These were the words of the former Commander of the British troops in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp as he spoke to Members of the European Parliament on Tuesday afternoon. The previous night he had addressed a private dinner for EU diplomats with the same message. “While Israel has reduced the number of Hamas militants by half, the only hope of Hamas for surviving is now to appeal to international media, NGO’s and UN agencies which are hostile to Israel”, he said.

The visit to Brussels came only a few days after the International Court of Justice had cleared Israel from South Africa’s genocide allegations and at the same time as a growing number of western countries have frozen their funding to UNWRA due the active involvement of some of their employees with the Hamas atrocities on October 7.

Commenting on the ICJ court case Colonel Kemp pointed out how the reality is the exact opposite. Israel is defending itself against a genocidal terrorist organisation which in its own wordings and concrete action is aiming at the destruction of the Jewish state. As for the defunding of UNWRA, he agreed that the UN agency needs to be completely reformed or replaced with a new organization in order to have a future in Gaza.

European Report | Situation in Gaza and Israel | February 2024