仿效;跟随;随着以色列境内持续不断的野蛮袭击美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯周日表示，美国已承诺“全力支持”以色列政府，并与该地区的盟友接触，以确保他们尽一切可能击退袭击者，防止暴力蔓延到中东其他地区。
国务卿告诉“本周”节目主持人乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯说:“这是一次大规模的恐怖袭击，在他们的城镇和家中枪杀以色列平民，正如我们所看到的那样，如此生动地，字面上拖着人们越过加沙边境，包括一名坐在轮椅上的大屠杀幸存者，妇女和儿童。”。
“世界应该对它所看到的感到厌恶，”他说。
官员们说，周六早些时候，哈马斯武装人员在以色列南部发动了一场出人意料的大规模袭击，不分青红皂白地袭击士兵和平民。哈马斯是一个被美国、以色列和欧盟定为恐怖组织的组织，控制着毗邻以色列的巴勒斯坦领土加沙。
周日，随着以色列国防军(IDF)试图夺回对几个地点的控制权，多个热点地区的战斗仍在继续。以色列也发动了多次报复性袭击。
布林肯在“本周”节目中说，渗透到以色列的大约1000名哈马斯武装分子中，大多数已经被打死或撤退到加沙，但“激烈的战斗仍然存在”
到目前为止，以色列卫生官员表示，以色列已有600多人死亡，2100多人受伤。以色列政府周日表示，至少有100人仍被武装分子扣为人质。
据巴勒斯坦卫生部称，在以色列发动的袭击中，加沙已有370多人死亡，至少1700人受伤。
布林肯在其他周日节目中表示，国务院正在“加班加点”验证关于美国人在哈马斯袭击中被杀或被扣为人质的报道。
以色列人和巴勒斯坦人之间的紧张局势已经加剧了几个月，但哈马斯的袭击----在规模和复杂程度上都是前所未有的----似乎让以色列措手不及，这表明了一个巨大的情报失误。
“我们将有时间来研究这个问题，并确定我们可能遗漏了什么，”布林肯在被斯特凡诺普洛斯问到这个问题时说道。“现在，重点必须是努力击退哈马斯恐怖分子的侵略，击退他们，并使以色列处于不会再次发生这种情况的位置。”
以色列安全内阁周末投票决定自1973年以来首次正式宣战，距离赎罪日战争开始近50年。赎罪日战争是一场针对阿拉伯国家联盟的为期一周的冲突，美国对以色列的支持是该国胜利的决定性因素。
作为对本周末大规模袭击的回应，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡(Benjamin Netanyahu)誓言要“摧毁哈马斯”，并表示，随着以色列国防军撤离居住在加沙边境附近的平民，该国军队将很快发动攻势。
布林肯周日表示，美国将支持以色列，因为以色列将采取一切必要措施确保“这种情况不会重演”
当被问及如果以色列入侵加沙，它是否能控制局势时，他说:“我不想提前知道以色列可能会做什么，也可能不会做什么。”。“不应该期望任何国家生活在恐怖主义分子跨越边界、进入人们的家庭、在街上枪杀他们、把他们拖过边界并把他们作为人质的恐惧、可能性和现在的现实之中。这对任何民主国家来说都是不可容忍的。这对以色列来说是不可容忍的。”
共和党人批评拜登政府对哈马斯最大的赞助者伊朗的做法，认为白宫实际上通过促进伊朗获得人道主义支出的受制裁资金，使袭击得以进行，并鼓励了极端分子释放美国被拘留者的单独协议.
众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯在一份声明中说，这笔资金转移是“绥靖”的标志。其他批评者说，这将解放伊朗，以便更好地在财政上支持哈马斯。
布林肯在《本周》节目中反驳道。
“伊朗和哈马斯之间的关系由来已久。事实上，如果没有伊朗多年来的支持，哈马斯就不是哈马斯了。我们还没有看到直接的证据表明伊朗是这次袭击的幕后黑手或参与其中，”他说。
“不幸的是，在这么多人丧生、以色列仍在遭受攻击的时候，一些人实际上在说一些可能出于政治动机的话，”他继续说，并指出这些资金存在美国财政部监控的受限账户中。
“顺便说一句，迄今为止，该账户中的一美元都没有真正花过，”布林肯断言道，并补充道，“所以，有些人提出这种错误的说法——他们要么是错误的信息，要么是错误的信息。不管怎样，这都是错误的。”
'The world should be revolted' by Hamas' surprise attack on Israel: Blinken
In the wake ofbrutal and ongoing attacks in Israelby the militant group Hamas -- which have already led to the deaths of hundreds -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said that the U.S. had pledged its "full support" to the Israeli government and engaged allies in the region to ensure they are doing everything possible to repel the attackers and prevent the violence from spilling into other parts of the Middle East.
"This is a massive terrorist attack that is gunning down Israeli civilians in their towns, in their homes, and as we've seen, so graphically, literally dragging people across the border with Gaza, including a Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair, women and children," the secretary told "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos.
"The world should be revolted at what it's seen," he said.
Early Saturday, fighters from Hamas -- a group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Israel and the European Union and which controls Gaza, the Palestinian territory adjacent to Israel -- launched a surprise large-scale assault in southern Israel, indiscriminately attacking soldiers and civilians, according to officials.
On Sunday, fighting continued at multiple flashpoints as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sought to regain control of several sites. Israel had launched numerous retaliatory strikes as well.
Blinken said on "This Week" that of the approximately 1,000 Hamas militants that infiltrated Israel, most had since been killed or retreated into Gaza but that "intense fighting remains."
So far, Israeli health officials say more than 600 people have been killed in Israel and more than 2,100 have been injured. The Israeli government said Sunday that at least one hundred individuals were also still being held hostage by militants.
More than 370 people in Gaza have been killed and at least 1,700 have been wounded in the strikes carried out by Israel, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Blinken said in other Sunday show appearances that the State Departmentwas "working overtime" to verifyreports of Americans killed or held hostage in the Hamas onslaught.
Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been heightened for months, but Hamas' attack -- unprecedented in both its scale and sophistication -- appears to have blindsided Israel, suggesting a massive intelligence failure.
"There'll be time to look at that and to make determinations about what may have been missed," Blinken said when pressed on the matter by Stephanopoulos. "Right now, the focus has to be on the effort to repel the aggression by the Hamas terrorists, to push them back and to put Israel in a position where this doesn't happen again."
Israel's security cabinet voted to officially declare war over the weekend for the first time since 1973, nearly 50 years to the day since the start of the Yom Kippur War -- a weekslong conflict against a coalition of Arab states where U.S. support for Israel was a decisive factor in the country's victory.
In response to this weekend's expansive attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to "destroy Hamas" and signaled that the country's forces will soon go on the offensive as the IDF evacuates civilians living near the border with Gaza.
Blinken said Sunday that the U.S. would stand behind Israel as it did whatever necessary to ensure "this doesn't repeat itself."
"I don't want to get ahead of what Israel may or may not do when it comes to Gaza," he said when asked whether Israel could control the situation if it invaded. "No country should be expected to live with the fear, the possibility and now the actuality of terrorists crossing a border, coming into people's homes, gunning them down in the street, dragging them across the border and making hostages of them. That is intolerable for any democracy. It's intolerable for Israel."
Republicans have criticized the Biden administration approach toward Iran, Hamas' largest sponsor, contending that the White House in effect enabled the attack and emboldened the extremists by facilitating Iran's access to sanctioned finances for humanitarian expenditures as part ofa separate deal to free American detainees.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in a statement that the money transfer was a sign of "appeasement." Other critics said it would free up Iran to better financially support Hamas.
Blinken, on "This Week," pushed back.
"There's a long relationship between Iran and Hamas. In fact, Hamas wouldn't be Hamas without the support that it's gotten over many years from Iran. We haven't yet seen direct evidence that Iran was behind this particular attack or involved," he said.
"It's unfortunate that some are, in effect, saying things that may be motivated by politics at a time when so many lives have been lost and Israel remains under attack," he continued, noting the funds are held in a restricted account monitored by the U.S. Treasury Department.
"By the way, not a single dollar from that account has actually been spent to date," Blinken asserted, adding, "So, some who are advancing this false narrative -- they're either misinformed or they're misinforming. And either way, it's wrong."
