According to HuffPost, Herzog said of the people of Gaza at a press conference yesterday, "It is a whole nation that is responsible, no innocents among them."
"This narrative that civilians are not aware, not involved, is not true. This is absolutely not true. They could have stood up. They could have fought against that evil regime that took over Gaza by coup."
International law states that combatants who fail to distinguish between combatants and civilians are clearly committing war crimes.
Herzog called Hamas "the devil" and said
"This narrative that civilians are not aware, that they are not involved, is not true. This is absolutely not true. They could have stood up. They could have fought against that evil regime that took over Gaza in a coup."
International law states that combatants who fail to distinguish between combatants and civilians are clearly guilty of war crimes.
In Gaza, the target of yesterday's Israeli airstrikes, Palestinians moved south in cars, trucks and horse-drawn carriages on the main road leading out of the city.
At the same time, the Hamas press office reported that at least 70 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on evacuation vehicles, according to the Associated Press.
Palestinian doctors in understaffed hospitals, already short of resources, said they "felt they had no choice but to stay put," the report said.
The director general of Gaza's largest hospital, Shifa, said it was not possible to evacuate the building.
Doctors Without Borders was among those tweeting about the impossibility of such an evacuation notice.
