The official spokesman for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, said that his government does not see any evidence that Israel is intentionally killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza, despite the overwhelming evidence that the world is witnessing closely and documented by international organizations concerned with documenting Israeli war crimes.

Miller said in his response to a question asked by Al-Quds.com correspondent in his press conference at the US State Department on Monday, regarding whether he considered the killing of 700 Palestinian civilians, half of them children, within 24 hours, as evidence of “improvement in the severity of attacks, and evidence Israel listens to the American desire to alleviate the suffering of Palestinian civilians: “I have not seen evidence that they are deliberately killing civilians. Although we believe that a very large number of civilians have been killed. But again, this goes back to the fundamental problem of this entire situation, which is that Hamas " has planted itself inside civilians - inside civilian homes, inside its mosques, in schools, and in churches. It is Hamas that is putting these civilians in danger."

Miller said that it is too early to make a final assessment of the ongoing Israeli bombing, “as the Secretary (Anthony Blinken) is very clear about how we want to judge this matter on the basis of results, not on the basis of intentions.”

Miller insisted: “In the first few days of the renewed military campaign against the South, we saw some things that did not look like the operation that took place in the North. For example, in the North, when operations began, you saw them requesting or ordering more than a million people to move. We've seen a more targeted order for evacuations here, where the IDF has identified specific neighborhoods in which it plans to conduct military operations and urged residents in those neighborhoods in advance to move, rather than telling an entire city or an entire region to evacuate their homes. This is an improvement on what happened before. They ordered them "Moving to areas that we know are de-escalation areas. It's one of the things we discussed with them last week. So UN-supported facilities where people can be out of harm's way. So that's an improvement."

Miller added: “What the minister made clear in our meetings with the Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) and other Israeli government officials on Thursday is that we do not want to see a military campaign in the south that resembles the military campaign in the north. What we mean by that is: We do not want to see the same level of civilian casualties; we don't want to see the same level of mass displacement. They showed us very detailed plans that they said were aimed at avoiding mass displacement and civilian casualties. But as the Minister made clear, it's not just the intention that matters; it's the results. And we're watching closely "We will continue to monitor closely before we make any final assessments."

Miller insisted: "We have seen an improvement in their (the Israelis') plans for Khan Yunis, and their plans for the south. We have seen them evacuate specific neighborhoods -- rather than entire neighborhoods, so we hope that the numbers of displaced people will be lower in southern Gaza than they were in the north. But when it comes to... "As for the results, we will monitor them closely."

Miller added: “People should go to the locations identified by the United Nations and listed on the Israeli lists as deconfliction zones that should not be the target of military campaigns. There are already people taking shelter in these people. As the campaign moves to the south and Israel evacuates certain neighborhoods or issues orders to evacuate certain neighborhoods, that's where people should go.”

It is noteworthy that since October 7, more than 15,800 people have been killed due to Israeli air and ground attacks on Gaza, the vast majority of them civilians. More than 7,000 of the dead were children.

With the end of the temporary truce in Gaza, American officials once again called on Israel to limit civilian casualties in its brutal attack on the besieged Palestinian territories, which are exposed to continuous indiscriminate bombing.

Israel said its brutal bombing was aimed at eliminating Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls Gaza and which launched a large-scale attack on Israeli territory on October 7, killing about 1,200 people.

It claimed that Hamas fighters are integrating themselves into the general population, so civilian deaths cannot be avoided.