On Monday’s “CNN News Central,” The New York Times David Sanger, White House and national security reporter, author, and CNN political and national security analyst, said he thinks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is probably right that Operation Rafah, which the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered Israel to halt, was “critical to rooting out Hamas,” and that he also thinks the ICC is right that the collateral damage from the operation is not worth the number of terrorists Israel is killing.
Sanger said:[I]If Israel did in fact do what they said they did, killing two terrorists who were members of Hamas, which Israel, for good reason, vowed to destroy after the October 7 attacks, is the number of terrorists killed worth it when the collateral damage is so great? I think this question answers itself. That is why the International Criminal Court ordered Israel to stop the operation.”
Sanger added that Netanyahu sees Operation Rafah as “central to wiping out Hamas. I can understand why he would think that, and he’s probably right on that point. The question is, is it worth the humanitarian cost?”
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