The official spokesman for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, refused to condemn the fierce Israeli attacks on the Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip, which led to the death and injury of more than 400 Palestinian citizens, most of whom were children and women, as a war crime, only pointing out the administration’s sadness for the innocent victims.

Miller said in response to a question from Al-Quds correspondent in Washington about condemning these Israeli attacks, which Israel acknowledged and justified by targeting a leader of the Hamas movement, and classifying them as a war crime: “I will say that we feel deep sadness at the loss of civilian lives. No matter how many civilians are missing in this raid or "Any other raid, we are obviously disturbed and deeply saddened by every loss of life. This is true whether it is Palestinians or Israelis, and we will continue to make that clear, and we will make that clear to the Israeli government."

Regarding the “Al-Quds” correspondent’s question to Miller that the administration of former President George W. Bush condemned a similar Israeli attack in 2002 when Israel targeted Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh, and the attack led to the death of 14 citizens, Miller said: “I am unable to talk about the assessments conducted by the administration” "20 years ago. I will say that we will continue to directly convince our Israeli counterparts of the need to reduce harm to civilians in all their military activities."

Regarding whether there has been a discussion within the ministry for the Jabalia massacre to assess the administration so far regarding whether Israel is following the rules of war, Miller said: “Once again, I will say that I am unable to provide an assessment of this strike because I am unable to provide an assessment of other individual strikes. “What I will say is that we will continue to discuss with them directly, and we will say publicly, that we expect them to adhere to the laws of war in all of their activities, in all of their military campaigns.”