The IDF appears poised to expand its ground war to Rafah where more than 1 million civilians have fled to escape the war.
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There is no historical context that shows you can defeat Nazi's by talking them out of it with better ideas.
Why they going in rafah yet the dudes causing this war are in the capital
Israel has consideration for the civilians. Biden is lying. The Israeli army has morals based on JUDAIC principles that the West lives by. They have a 1 to 1 ration and not a 9 to 1 like the US. Shame on the US for going after terrorists in the 2000's if we base this on ratio.
Our government might not support you but our people do🇮🇱🇮🇱
Biden is too old to understand. Palestinians have worn out their welcome. They won't make peace, have had too many opportunities to count, and all they want to do is fight a war they can't win. If you feel sorry for them, you're a fool.
Population control at its finest.
Innocent Palestine made misarable mistake is that grant Palestine land to evel yahood to save life i when Titus of Rome and Ruchards of London and Hitler massacred evel jews yahoodi
Israel is wrong period
This Hass to be fake news. Last I looked. There’s a war going on in Chicago against the indigenous American, Irish Indians, that they call blacks. America is Israel
But keeps giving them money.
US regime is the one providing murdering occupiers with weapons of mass destruction, and illegal weapons to be tested on Palestinians, while the US planes are dropping the same on the people of Yemen. This is American democracy.
Egyptian are paid $5000 per truck to cross into occupied Palestine for the murdering occupiers.
Other Arab puppets, Saudi, Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain are along with Egypt, for other reasons.
Joe Biden is a "Elderly man with a poor memory". FJB, the useful idiot and puppet
Now that Israel is winning the war, Biden is critical. Biden knows how to loose a corporate adventure.
I,ve always liked whirled peas.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to prepare for civilian evacuations in Rafah on Friday as his troops are set to enter the densely populated city that now serves as the largest refugee camp for Palestinians fleeing the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Netanyahu said in a statement shared by his office that he ordered Israel’s military and the security establishment to submit a plan to evacuate the population in the southern Gaza Strip city before entering the refugee camp to fight Hamas.
“It is impossible to achieve the goal of the war without eliminating Hamas, and by leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “On the contrary, it is clear that intense activity in Rafah requires that civilians evacuate the areas of combat.”
Israel threatened to move into Rafah last week. Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the advance would come now that forces had completed operations in the southern city of Khan Yunis.
Rafah, situated at the border with Egypt, is the last designated safe zone in Gaza, with Israeli troops having fought across almost the entire Gaza Strip.
About 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are at the refugee camp, which also serves as the main hub for humanitarian aid entering the territory to help besieged civilians who are struggling to access the basic necessities of food, water and medical aid.
The Israeli push into Gaza is likely to frustrate the Biden administration, which is trying to get Israel to reduce casualties in the coastal enclave. More than 27,000 Palestinians have died in the war, according to Hamas health officials, who say most of the dead are women and children.
President Biden delivered his most disapproving remarks yet on the war when he said the military action in Gaza was “over the top” during a Thursday night appearance at the White House.
State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said Thursday that a move into Rafah “is not something that we’d support.”
To “conduct such an operation right now with no planning and little thought in an area where there is sheltering of a million people would be a disaster,” Patel told reporters.
Mike Merryman-Lotze, who works for the Quaker humanitarian organization American Friends Service Committee, which has personnel on the ground to assist Palestinian civilians, said invading Rafah “will only cause more death and suffering.”
“Almost the entire population of Gaza has been squeezed up against the border in Rafah and now has nowhere left to flee,” Merryman-Lotze said in a statement. “This invasion comes as people in Gaza are dying from starvation, thirst, exposure, and the destruction and obstruction of access to health care.”
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said more than 600,000 children are in Rafah, urging Israel to not move into the area.
“Thousands more could die in the violence or by lack of essential services, and further disruption of humanitarian assistance,” Russell said in a statement. “We need Gaza’s last remaining hospitals, shelters, markets and water systems to stay functional. Without them, hunger and disease will skyrocket, taking more child lives.”
But Israel is vowing to destroy Hamas in retaliation for its Oct. 7 attack that killed about 1,200 Israelis, along with the taking of some 240 hostages, more than 100 of whom are still in Gaza.
Netanyahu has rejected the latest negotiations to free those hostages after Hamas pressed for a cease-fire in return for their freedom, and the Israeli leader is set on the complete defeat of the militant group, including finding and killing Palestinian leaders responsible for the October attacks.
Israel has said its war aim includes hunting Hamas in every corner of Gaza, and it has accused the militants of hiding behind civilians.
Netanyahu orders Rafah evacuation ahead of expected invasion.? ok this is not FAKE NEWS ok
DID YOU NOT HERE the plan before invasion of Rafa is to relocate refugees further up north along the Costline 60 miles away,?????????
Sorry for changing the subject but you need to lookup the name Sidra Hassouna. Look what Israel did to this beautiful little girl while we were watching the Superbowl. I'm completely broken..
Why can I not block ABC from showing up in my feed!?
If Gazans want to be safe, why don't they help the IDF? Hamas is harming them much more than the IDF. The war will end faster.
UNRWA got about $343 million just from the US, and around $400 million more from Europe. The Plastilin The wealthiest miser in the world and best actors chose to use this fortune for terror rather than welfare.
If Hamas moved into the Rafah the Southern most point of Gaza,
What should Israel to do?????
Hamas's willing human shields are not innocent civilians they are combatants.
Hamas is a terrorist organization.
BIDEN JUST APPROVED 18 MILLION DOLLORS TO ISRAEL, HE'S LOSING VOTERS BELIEVE ME !!
ONLY BIDEN CAN STOP THIS AND HE WON'T!! 💔
US Administration supports the genocide by Israeli occupation army to the Palestinian people!
WHY WON'T JORDAN AND EGYPT OPEN THEIR DOORS?
WHY WON'T DUBAI OPEN THE DOORS? THEY IMPORT MILLIONS TO SERVE FROM INDIA.
USA is a proxy state of Israel.
Gotta love how YouTube has a bunch of dirty J3w lovers. Must feel nice to have a whole company taking down comments speaking against their inferior dirty group.
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA ALL J3WS WILL CEASE TO BE!