Israel is expanding its military ground invasion of Gaza, with forces now attacking the southern part of the strip around the densely populated city Khan Younis.
NJ Spotlight News anchor Briana Vannozzi spoke with Kenneth Roth, who served for nearly three decades as the executive director of Human Rights Watch and is a visiting professor at Princeton University. He weighed in on the balance between Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s retaliation on Gaza.
“Israel is required to abide by humanitarian law. That is to say the basic rules that war crimes by one side don’t justify war crimes by the other,” said Roth. “So what Hamas did on October 7th, the horrible slaughter and abduction of civilians, does not justify Israel either bombing civilian targets, as an Israeli media outlet recently showed.”
