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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday responded to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after the latter asked Tel Aviv to exercise restraint and stop “the killing of women, children, and babies” in Gaza.

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Trudeau in an X post said it was not Israel but Hamas who was burning and beheading the civilians. “It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust. While Israel is doing everything to keep civilians out of harm’s way, Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm’s way,” Netanyahu wrote.

Israeli PM also asserted that they offered several humanitarian corridors and safe zones for civilians in the backdrop of war in Gaza but Hamas prevented them from leaving at gunpoint, adding that Hamas should be held accountable for committing a double war crime.

“Israel provides civilians in Gaza humanitarian corridors and safe zones, Hamas prevents them from leaving at gunpoint. It is Hamas not Israel that should be held accountable for committing a double war crime - targeting civilians while hiding behind civilians. The forces of civilization must back Israel in defeating Hamas barbarism,” he added.

Trudeau’s remark came amid global criticism that Israel has been attracting due to its fervent military action in besieged Gaza. Hamas’ health ministry claimed over 11,000 people, most of them women and children, have so far been killed since Israel launched a massive counteroffensive in the Palestinian enclave.  

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The supply of the essentials is also disrupted in the war-hit territory. Yesterday, three out of 39 premature babies at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital died after the facility ran out of fuel to power generators powering incubators.