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2024-02-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
PM says IDF must operate in Rafah, but will let civilians evacuate first
[IsraelTimes] Amid US alarm, Netanyahu says it’s ‘impossible to achieve war goal and leave 4 Hamas battalions’ in southern Gaza city; Sinwar ‘out of contact’ for 10 days; numerous gunmen killed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated Friday that the over one million civilians who have crowded into the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
city of Rafah will be able to evacuate before the Israel Defense Forces begins operating there. Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that he had instructed the IDF and defense establishment to present the cabinet with plans for both the evacuation of the Paleostinian civilian population from the southern Gaza Strip and the dismantlement of Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s battalions in the Rafah area.

"It is impossible to achieve the war goal of eliminating Hamas and leave four Hamas battalions in Rafah," the statement said.

"On the other hand, it is clear that a massive operation in Rafah requires the evacuation of the civilian population from the combat zones," it added.

The statement came amid US statements that Israel has not conducted the pre-operational planning necessary to ensure that civilians will be kept out of harm’s way and that failure to do so risks "disaster."

Netanyahu this week rejected a ceasefire proposal from Hamas, saying its demands were "delusional," after the terror group proposed a truce plan that would see a four-and-a-half-month ceasefire during which hostages would be freed in three stages, and which would lead to an end to the war. The Hamas proposal would have seen Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza with the terror group still intact ruling the Strip, as well as the release of 1,500 prisoners from Israeli jails, a third of whom are serving life sentences. It made other various demands of Israel.

An Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Thursday that Jerusalem was working to pressure Hamas to withdraw its terms and was not about to offer new terms. "The main target now is to create pressure from the Americans and other countries on Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, and from there on Hamas, in addition to the military pressure, to bring them down from their delusional demands," said the official.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
said that while some parts of the Hamas proposal were non-starters, it did create space for further negotiation.

NUMEROUS GUNMEN KILLED BY TROOPS IN GAZA
Fighting continued across the Gaza Strip Friday, with the IDF saying it carried out several Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s against Hamas cells attempting to attack troops.

In the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, the IDF said the Commando Brigade operated in the western part of the city, raiding Hamas sites. An IDF drone spotted a Hamas cell placing bombs near the commando troops, and an aircraft struck and killed the operatives, the military said.

Also in Khan Younis, the IDF said troops of the Border Defense Corps’ 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit spotted two armed Hamas operatives and directed an airstrike on them.

The Paratroopers Brigade, also in western Khan Younis, killed some 15 Hamas operatives during raids on the terror group’s sites over the past day, the IDF said.

In another area of Khan Younis, the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade directed airstrikes on several booby-trapped buildings, raided several Hamas sites and seized weapons and equipment.

The brigade also located a Hamas rocket launcher adjacent to a children’s daycare and a mosque. The rocket launchers, armed with projectiles and aimed at Israel, were later destroyed, the IDF said. The reservists also discovered a Hamas tunnel under a water facility in Khan Younis.

Israel also reportedly conducted airstrikes in the city of Rafah on Gaza’s southern border, killing at least 13 people, including two women and five children, according to a hospital that received the remains. The military did not immediately comment on those strikes.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there...
in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade spotted a group of button men near a Hamas position, the IDF said. Airstrikes were carried out against the cell and against two other button men spotted in the area.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire in the war and the release of all hostages, condemning Hamas’s October 7 massacre and "the violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza," in apparent reference to Israel.

SINWAR ’OUT OF CONTACT’
Efforts are continuing for a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas that will see more hostages in Gaza be freed. However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
the security establishment reportedly believes that Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s leader in the Gaza Strip, has been "out of contact" for the past 10 days, not passing any messages to Qatari and Egyptian mediators during that period.

According to Channel 12, the reason for the disconnect is not clear and could be because he is on the run, engaged in a tactical ruse or simply unable to make contact due to the ongoing communications problems in Gaza.

Several decisions were made by Hamas in the past few days without him, though not necessarily ones relating to the hostages deal, Channel 12 said.

According to Kan news, the Israeli security establishment’s assessment is that Sinwar was not involved in issuing Hamas’s response to the Qatari hostage deal framework earlier this week.

The Hamas response included a clause stating that the deal would be "subject to the approval of the Hamas leadership in Gaza," seemingly making Sinwar’s approval necessary. Reportedly, Hamas’s leadership in Qatar is seeking a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, while Sinwar would suffice with a temporary pause of six weeks so that the terror organization can regroup.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-10 2024-02-10 01:26|| || Front Page|| [44 views ]  Top
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#1 To me, the biggest problem in letting "civilians" free is determining who is a civilian.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2024-02-10 09:25||   2024-02-10 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Obviously Israel operates under a handicap - always was, always will. The important thing is most Israelis seem to grasp that peace with Arabs is impossible.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-10 09:29||   2024-02-10 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 civilians?
Posted by irish rage boy 2024-02-10 11:12||   2024-02-10 11:12|| Front Page Top

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