The US military has offered Israel assistance in extracting hostages that Hamas has taken into Gaza, Pentagon officials told the media on Tuesday.
According to Task & Purpose, the US offer includes help planning and intelligence support, not US troops on the ground involved in the operation. CNN first reported the offer and said the support would also include surveillance and reconnaissance.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made the offer to his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, in a conversation over the weekend. On Monday, Gallant ordered a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, which has been under blockade since 2007. Gallant said Israel was fighting “human animals” in Gaza, which is populated by about 1 million children.
Austin told the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to “lean forward” in providing intelligence and support to Israel’s military. US Special Operations Command and US Central Command are also offering assistance. The US is also supporting Israel, which is expected to invade Gaza, by providing new military aid and deploying an aircraft carrier strike group.
It’s unclear how many hostages are in Gaza. Hamas has claimed it captured over 100 people, but Israel has not confirmed the number. President Biden said Monday that he believes American citizens are among the captured.
“We have not seen any hard numbers because it is so fluid, and many are dual citizens. I think when the dust settles the number will be significant,” a US official told CNN. On Monday, Hamas threatened it would start executing prisoners if Israeli airstrikes did not stop, and the Israeli bombardment has continued.
Gallant said Israel was fighting “human animals” in Gaza, which is populated by about 1 million children
maybe that attitude right there is the root of the entire problem
Just like the Russians you support think of Ukrainians 🤷🏽♂️
Poot didn’t hire Maria Abramovic to educate children. The porn clown chicken Kiev dancing in heels did
Another Ukraine hater.
Welcome to Antiwar, sister! Love the spicy approach! I’m a huge fan already. Please keep posting here!
I feel the same, NA! She rocks!
Just like the Russians you support
If only you had a dollar every time you typed that.
If only i had a dollar every time you get spooked by me when I mentioned anything negative about the Russians.
Don’t flatter yourself. I only reply to you when you say stupid shit. And bringing up Ukraine in an article about Israel/Gaza qualifies as stupid shit. And you used one of your standard replies that was irrelevant to what you replied too (as usual) making your comment even more stupid.
Stupidity was the only job requirement. In fact, his hiring manager was Mr. Potato Head, himself.
Indeed, he’d as well used the word “untermenschen”, eh?
Leave the poor animals out of this. Gang rapists and baby beheaders do not deserve kind treatment.
Well if it is a “war” then don’t the Geneva conventions apply?
I don’t remember them agreeing to the Geneva Conventions.
Yep, IsraHell is in violations of dozens of Articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Israeli army says it does not have ‘confirmation’ about allegations that ‘Hamas beheaded babies’
Israeli army spokesperson tells Anadolu over phone that they have no information confirming allegations that ‘Hamas beheaded babies’
No one ever need worry about the Izraelis being too kind to their victims. Their transactional violence and domination seem 2B hard wired into their program!
Zionism is about the creation of a state on the land which belongs to other people. In other words, Zionism is about ethnic cleansing. Genocide is a way to achieve the ethnic cleansing. So, it is acceptable for Israeli politicians.
Right. Hellfire missiles is how ‘decent human beings’ do it.
Yes the Israeli government, IDF and most Israeli settlers have a joyful bloodlust in killing Palestinians men woman and children. Even though Hamas was wrong to act like their adversaries, this attack was going to happen eventually because of Israel’s rabid need for terror, and conquest.
Nobody got raped. No baby got beheaded. Just more lies from the Empire of lies and its minions.
Including red white and blue Jake Minion.
Are you sure those are the colors of his flag ? 😉
And the Iraqis ripped preemies from incubators during their invasion of Kuwait.
The closest nation to Ashkenazi is German nation. Germans got the ideas of “God chosen people” and “exceptionalism” from Ashkenazi. Now idea of “exceptionalism”, which is very much similar to Nazism, is promoted in US. This idea is attractive for MIC because it guarantees the confrontation with other nations.
Yanqui Go Home (if you remember where it is)..
So why didn’t the U.S. extract the Palestinians from the occupier, Israel? Had plenty of time to do it. Like, 75 years.
It is the duty of the US to secure the release of US citizens,and if in the process other victims of the baby beheaders can be saved,fine.
Except Gonzalo Lira right?
There are no baby beheadings. Stop spreading this lie.
Even the Israelis are backing off on that one.
Israel has returned home!
LOL…what home? Oh the satire of the uninformed..Thx.
That’s because the Palestinians are “the occupiers.” Not only they occupy land they were born in for hundreds of years, but also “occupy” their own bodies with their “subhuman” souls. That’s not funny. What’s funny is believing that Israel is liberating its “promised land,” which was promised to them by the same a$$hole that gave the Palestinians those “subhuman” souls. (Do I need to add “Sarcasm” at the end of this post?)
You need to add EXCEPTIONAL sarcasm, NA 😁
Have either the US or Israel established a record of successful rescues of hostages in environments even remotely like Gaza? Of course not. And the chances of rescuing many hostages now are very slim, even if they go in with no concern for “collateral damage” — as you know they would.
This sounds like a great way to get hostages killed.
Israel will not win this war, just like Ukraine will not win their war of mass murder ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Indeed..both the US and Israel are blinded by chest beating bravado. Reality and resistance to their warped visions will prevail in the end.
Extracting…? Like Extracting US Hostages from Iran in the middle of the desert…?!
Well, the middle of the desert (“Desert One”) is where the whole clusterfumble fell apart, 300 miles from Tehran, where the hostages were.
Not a good advertisement for hostage extraction expertise.
https://magazines.defensie.nl/binaries/large/content/gallery/magazines/00-defensiekrant/2020/16/artikel-iran/wrak-desert-one.jpg
Where did you find that picture? I remember when that episode happened but don’t remember any accompanying “embarrassing” pictures. I also don’t remember if anyone tried to say that “we destroyed the helicopter ourselves on purpose to make sure it didn’t fall in enemy hands?”
The images have been out there for a long time — lots of images — but they certainly weren’t being broadcast at the time.
Jimmy Carter, the day after the “disaster at Desert One”:
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=572560862&q=desert+one&tbm=isch#imgrc=K-NQSIGBQPC72M
Thanks, Dissident. Sorry, I have to see the Doctor. All of sudden, I got an “Eagle Claw” in my eye.
😂
After seeing how our ‘intelligence and planning’ has helped bring the Ukraine to the brink of destruction, Tel Aviv should RUN from our help.
The US has become a parody of itself. No one respects or takes seriously the venomous inhumanity of every pathetic politician in Washington. The US needs to remove itself from all foreign conflicts since it will lose them all, and become more irrelevant.
Biden will get them all killed… Afghans, Ukraines, and now US.
Banned, the world would be better off without Amerikkka.
It might even survive.
The more Wash. gets involved, the more chance Americans will be targeted around the world. There’s a reason the world hates Americans, but they should only hate the people who make policy. Rank and file Americans have no say in foreign policy, unless you mean by Americans all the Wash. campaign donors. It’s all about money, money, money, and who benefits and doesn’t. So, what are you getting out of all the money going to inflict more and more misery around the world in Wash. forever wars of intervention?
The US gov’t should’ve seen the attacks on Israeli citizens as a cautionary tale. Karma is a b!tch and they are setting up citizens here for the same. Just because it hasn’t happened, doesn’t mean it won’t. But they don’t care about us anyway.
‘it hasn’st happened” like what about 911?
Tell me how the Mossad knew in advance of the 9/11 attacks, and admitted to this on Israeli channel 4? Or why building seven was “pulled” by the orders of Netanyahu’s best friend and owner of the towers Larry Silverstein…on tv…Hmmm
Targets were the government and the symbol of neoliberal trade.
Israel’s defence minister described Palestinians as “human animals” and vowed to “act accordingly,” as fighter jets unleashed a massive bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip.
Didn’t we hear this rhetoric with the Nazi’s, Subhumans?
Yoav Gallant announced a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, an area of about 365 square km, and home to 2.3 million Palestinians, which has been under an Israeli-led blockade since 2007.
Wasn’t this the tactics that the Nazi’s used, Stalingrad?
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” Gallant said.
Isnt this genocide as a collective punishment, ethnic cleansing and mass murder?
The Israeli air force has dropped 2,000 munitions and more than 1,000 tonnes of bombs on Gaza in the last 20 hours, the army said on Monday morning, having shelled 20 high-rise residential buildings, mosques, hospitals, banks and other civilian infrastructure.
The FINAL SOLUTION, KILL THEM ALL.
Anyone remember My Lai and Abu Ghraib ? The American perpetrators were “human animals” then. Hypocrisy is alive and well in the so called land of “ freedom and democracy “.