The top United States diplomat was speaking during a trip to Moldova when he was asked the question.
“I can’t tell you, as we meet here this evening, what weapons were used or how they were used,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in response. “All of that needs to be the product of a deliberate, but also fast, investigation, and we’ll await the results.”
The reporter asking the question had noted that a State Department report released earlier this month said it was “reasonable to assess” that the weapons Washington provided to Israel have been used in violation of international humanitarian law in Gaza. The report did not call for weapons transfers to be halted.
Blinken then repeated the information that Israel has released about the strike, but added he could not “vouch” for it.
“I think we also see that even limited, focused, targeted attacks designed to deal with terrorists who killed innocent civilians that are plotting to kill more, even those kinds of operations can have terrible, horrific, unintended consequences,” he said.
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