John Kirby
“The minority of states still funding UNRWA despite revelations of its staff’s involvement in the Oct. 7 massacre must suspend funds immediately,” said Eylon Levy, an Israeli spokesman.
“There’s still diplomacy ahead of us,” stated U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.
Eyewitnesses said Tawfic Abdel Jabbar had been part of a group throwing rocks at passing cars on Route 60 in Samaria.
A reporter asked the U.S. official why he seems “to give the Israelis more of a benefit of the doubt than your own president.”
Jerusalem has been “receptive to our messages here in terms of trying to minimize civilian casualties,” added spokesman John Kirby.
“It comes from a personal place for me,” John Kirby said of his strong defense of Israel to the media. “I believe in Israel.”
