CNN star Kaitlan Collins grilled one of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s top advisers this week on a series of recent airstrikes on a refugee camp in Gaza, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The surprising confrontation took place on Wednesday evening when senior Netanyahu adviser Mark Regev appeared on Collins’ show The source to discuss current affairs conflict between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.
The exchange between Collins and Regev came just hours after Israeli forces launched two airstrikes against the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza on Tuesday and Wednesday.
But Regev refused to answer how many Palestinian civilians were killed in the devastating airstrikes on the refugee camp, even though Collins asked him six times in less than five minutes.
“Why has Israel struck here again?” the CNN host pressed. “And do you know how many civilians were killed in this area as a result of these attacks yesterday and today?”
While the senior Netanyahu adviser did not reveal how many Palestinian civilians were killed in the two airstrikes, he did explain that the strikes were organized to kill a “senior Hamas commander who was directly involved in the October 7 massacre.”
“But when asked why Israel struck a second time today, and do you have an estimate of how many civilians were killed yesterday and today as a result of these attacks?” Collins pressed further.
Collins then put further pressure on Regev after the Israeli adviser admitted he “cannot say” how many innocent civilians were killed between Tuesday and Wednesday.
“Okay, but you don’t say how much,” she insisted. “I assume Israel does have an estimate of the number of civilians killed. I assume you have an estimate of how many civilians there are if you calculate when to strike.”
“Tell me if that’s wrong,” she continued. “But if you decide to attack military targets, which you say are military targets, but where there are also civilians – I mean, how many civilian deaths does Israel think is acceptable in an airstrike if it is a military target?”
Regev again refused to give a “precise figure” on the number of innocent Palestinians killed, and he also reiterated the fact that Israel is “hitting a primary Hamas target.”
“We can’t give you a precise number, and I don’t want to give you a number irresponsibly,” Regev said at the end of the CNN interview.
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“I can say this,” he continued. “Most civilians left that location before we struck. I don’t deny there are some. But we hit a primary Hamas target.”
“We have taken out a Hamas leader. We have eliminated many Hamas fighters. That was the purpose of our operation.”
If RadarOnline.com previously reported, Netanyahu stated war against Hamas after the Palestinian militant group launched an unprecedented terrorist attack attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7.
That was more than 1,400 Israeli citizens killed at the attack, while there were about 200 more kidnapped and taken hostage of Hamas in Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry recently claimed that more than 8,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israel since the first Hamas attack on October 7.