But Himes added, quote, What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service.' Congressman Himes continued, saying, quote, You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel who were killed by the United States.' MS NOW played a clip of Himes saying outright that the U.S. attacked shipwrecked sailors, which is against the Geneva Conventions.
That strike, just one of more than 20 that have to date killed at least 80 people in the Trump administration's posturing against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, now balanced on the edge of conventional war, recently reignited a firestorm of controversy when fresh reporting at the end of November revealed that a second strike had allegedly been ordered to kill several survivors of the wrecked boat.
Mr. President, thank you so much for taking questions with your assembled cabinet. I wanted to clarify something that you had said on Sunday regarding the boat strikes near Venezuela. You had said that you didn't know if the second strike on that one boat had happened, but you wouldn't have wanted it, Gutierrez began, adding: Now that your administration has acknowledged that it happened, do you support that second strike?
Hamas has said that none of the 21 people killed in an Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital was a member of the Palestinian movement, after the Israeli military claimed it had targeted a Hamas surveillance camera and killed six fighters in its attack on the medical facility. In a statement reported by the Reuters news agency on Wednesday, Hamas challenged the Israeli government's account that claimed to name six fighters killed in the attack, which has drawn global condemnation for targeting journalists, medics, rescue workers and civilians.
