And I stood with them outside to make clear that their tragedy, their immense suffering, should not be used as a justification for the creation of more of that. And what we were seeing even that quickly was An immense amount of a military attack was killing tens of and hundreds and thousands of Palestinians, innocent civilians. And at the core of my position about Israel, Palestine, any place in the world is consistency and international law and human rights, because I believe that justice, freedom, safety, those are things that should be applied to all people. (08:24–08:36)
CLAIM
Asserts that military attacks were killing large numbers of Palestinian civilians.
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