Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that “there is a date” set for Israel’s plans to attack the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah but did not share when it would be.
“This victory requires entry into Rafah and the elimination of the terrorist battalions there. It will happen – there is a date,” Netanyahu said.
His comments came a day after the Israeli military withdrew troops from areas of southern Gaza, including the city of Khan Yunis, which was left in ruins.
Israeli Defense Minster Yoav Gallant said the purpose of the withdrawal was to prepare for the invasion of Rafah. Any Israeli assault on Rafah would incur huge civilian casualties as over one million Palestinians are packed into the city, and many are sheltering in tents on the street.
The Biden administration has expressed opposition to Israel’s plan to attack Rafah, but it doesn’t appear to be threatening any serious consequences if it happens. In response to Netanyahu’s comments about a date being set, the State Department said Israel has not briefed the US about the potential operation.
State Department spokesman Matt Miller repeated US opposition to a full-scale assault on Rafah, but Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have repeatedly vowed they will go through with it no matter what the US thinks. The US has continued to ship bombs and other weapons to support Israel’s genocidal war despite the difference of opinion on Rafah.
Gaza’s media office said on Monday that at least 33,207 Palestinians have been killed, including 14,520 children, by the Israeli onslaught since October 7. The number is considered a low estimate since it doesn’t account for the thousands who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
Victorious Israeli army succeeded so far only in killing women and children.
It’s like thieves rob banks because that’s where the money is, Netanyahu will bomb where the million civilians are. Wait until he drops nuclear bombs on Iranian civilians, while screaming about Iran having a bomb.
Israel just may do that. What is to stop them? Us? BWAHAHAHA!
Despite all the carnage the Zios have created, Hamas endures and is still fighting.. God bless em!
Hamas has ruthless ruled Gaza and now sacrificed its people.
While 71% of Israelis say Netanyahu should resign, as the link below this one on Antiwar’s page says, that is misleading. They do not disapprove of the war. They only disapprove of him letting the successful Hamas attack happen.
Only 47% of Israelis prioritize the return of hostages, while 42% say destroying Hamas – i.e. keep bombing the Palestinian people – is more important. So says the Times of Israel. “Relatives of the hostages have told The Times of Israel that they feel they have been forgotten.”
60% of Israelis think that freeing the hostages should not come at the price of “releasing all Palestinian prisoners and halting the fighting in Gaza.”
The Israeli propaganda is using “sexual assault” again. The Orthodox Zaka group invented the claim about women being raped by Hamas in October, and Netanyahu thanked them for “buying us time.” The NYT sent a fanatic woman and her nephew to interview parents of a dead girl, and the parents said the NYT lied when they claimed in the later news article that the girl had been raped.
Now we get to hear about released hostages saying the women are “dressed up like dolls” and the captors watch them when they take showers.
Remember the first released hostages? They were old people. They told the media that they were treated very well. The Netanyahu government then complained that they didn’t have time to “prep” these hostages before they talked to the media. Now with the later released hostages they have fixed that.
The violence and sex is sick propaganda created by sick minds for consumption by sick minds. There is no evidence and virtually all of it has been debunked, that does not mean no acts of sexual crime have been committed, just not the kind war criminals want us to believe.
Denile is a river in Egypt.
From the River to the Sea
Palestine will be FREE!
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It already is.
Actually there’s plenty of sexual assault going on – IN THE ISRAELI PRISONS!
That’s why Hamas went to such lengths to free them.. I would do the same.
The only people who don’t want to get their people back are the Israelis.
There are more than 7,000 hostages (detainees) in Israeli jails. Evern children.
People are waking up and smelling the B*******. Tucker recently had a great interview on the plight of Christians in Gaza https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-munther/. While MSM “conservatives” bray about Christians under attack from evil library books, Tucker covers actual atrocities committed against Christians with US weapons.
The same things are happening in the center and the left. The terms “liberal” and “conservative” are about as meaningful as the terms “federalist” and “whig;” a long time ago they meant something but not anymore.
Now you’re either on the side of the establishment plutocrats or you’re with independent humanity. The voices among the later may disagree with one another at times, but they have much more in common with each other than they do any of the true deplorables who make up the former.
The is it in a nutshell. They were not supposed to be attacked by persons from the concentration camp. One of the potential hostages said that when Hamas fighters entered in the home she was hiding it, she was able to engage in a conversation with one of them, mentioning she was from Argentina. When the fighter asked, “what is Argentina”, she mentioned that her favorite socker player, Messi, was from there. He said, “Messi?, I like Messi!”. He took a picture of her with a Palestinian flag draped on her, a weapon in her lap, then the fighters left.
What is the purpose of the Rafah Invasion? More death and destruction? Did anyone in genocide Joe’s administration ever inquire what Netanyahu’s goal is, other than destruction? What will they do with all the rubble. Dropping bombs is easy, to build not so much.
That is what one gets when the inmates are running the asylum and are dancing on the tables.
Answer: The intent is to exterminate Palestinians in Rafah…! They don’t even care or know of the consequences…!
To get them to move. “Rototill” the grass, not “mow” it. Force you and I to pitch in an pay for the fixing the mess in Gaza, so more settlers will have a clean place to live. Jared Kushner has plans for oceanfront homes, after the place is “cleaned up”, “they are removed”.
Return the hostages-quite a normal request to stop the war.
Just go away, I just saw a short video of a little girl crying wanting her leg back after she lost it during an Israeli bombing her clothing was still soaked in blood.
I have no pity for Israeli hostages, the Israelis are holding thousands of Palestinians hostage and they are tortured by Israelis. Stop you whimpering, Palestinian children suffer more than they do.
I V*mit to hear your whining.
So vomit.Why are the lives of Palestinian civilians any more or less valuable than those of Israeli civilians?
Why do you have to ask?
You should know, why are the lives of Palestinians less valuable than Zionist-Israelis?
If only Israel heeded your advice this one wouldn’t have started.
“Return the hostages-quite a normal request to stop the war.”
1/ Lie – Israel says ‘short ceasefire for hostages’ – not “stop[ping] the war.”
2/ 14,000 women and children and counting? Not “normal” conditions for a temporary ceasefire – more like Nazi reprisals against civilians in an occupied village.
Bibi has said the “war” will continue after the hostages are released for a few Palestinian ‘detainee”. He used the words, “finish”, “victory”.
Release the “detainees”. Release the occupation. Release the blockade. Stop the raids, sniper action, destruction of farms. Two states. Israel. Palestine. Forget the myth of a book, and its companion book.
Arafat and Hamas killed the just hope of two free states.
Except, they’re not dancing on the tables. They’re dancing on dead babies.
The purpose is to recover hostages,or force their release.Very just.
Well , the Israelis could stop the slaughter immediately, why don’t they do it?
The Israelis should stop the slaughter, using 2000 pound bombs to kill unarmed babies, maybe that would make some sense?
Did anyone notice that while Israel and the USA bomb the crap out of innocent defenseless women and children in Gaza EVERY force that opposes and threatens Israel is termed a “terrorist” by the mainstream media? This is to distract from the FACT that the REAL terrorists are the ones dropping the bombs and randomly killing Palestinians for game!
Hamas is sacrificing these women and children.
Sure, blame the victims
Lowkey video “Terrorists?” speaks to the truth.
When will someone pull the toilet lever to flush the two biggest turds in the human race down the tube- Biden and Nutty Yahoo? We don’t have “democracy” on this planet as much as we have rule by warmongers!
You forgot sinwar.
Only to be replaced by something that may be worse.
An evil genius? Or just evil?
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Brain washed by his father, who was an acolyte of Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Why would the State Department be briefed by the Israelis anyway?
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It’s also the US style of public relations. For the US, one could call it the “wedding party PR plan” for all the wedding parties the US has bombed.
Today is the last day of Ramadan, I suspect the invasion will begin sometime during the next three days due to it being the Eid holiday. A sick poke in the eye to the Palestinians’ culture.
Zionism is a sick poke in the eye to Judaism.
Will this date be a new holiday for Biden, his Zionist Thugs, calling it Palestine Genocide? If America does NOT stop this Genocide, it will haunt us and destroy our Republic.
Israel wants everyone – especially the Israeli and US public – to think they have eliminated most of Hamas. It’s total BS. 90% of Hamas remains intact, including almost all their tunnels. Meanwhile, Israel is suffering large numbers of casualties, both killed and wounded. Its economy is on the ropes and will remain so. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis are displaced from their homes because they’re scared to return anywhere near Gaza or the Lebanese border.
Without a war in Lebanon, Netanyahu is toast. With a war in Lebanon, Israel is toast.
With a war in Lebanon, a wider Middle East war is likely. With that, Biden is toast. But he has no more control over that than Netanyahu does. So a wider war is now inevitable. All sides want to finish this conflict once and for all. They are only concerned in how to mitigate the damage to their respective countries. But that won’t stop the war.
It’ll be another failure… But keep dreaming about your political survival…!
The IDF is not doing well on the ground. Drones, jets, will be used. Hezbollah has not unleased its full potential.
So Beirut and half of Iran will then be slagged.Not a good situation.
The date? The day right before his election!!!
Which is the same day entrails aligned….
A bush burned and under it was found…A Shekel!!!
He is an Idiot in a suit, …, a menace, nonetheless.
The corporate media keeps presenting Israel as a ‘democracy’.
In fact, it is a de facto dictatorship. Polls show that three-quarters of the Israel public want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his murderous government to resign. But they won’t because they think they have a divine right to commit a genocide.
If the UN keeps among its members a genocidal member, that’s means the UN is as dead as the League of Nations during the 1930s.
At the very least, the UN General Assembly should hold a vote about kicking Israel out of the UN.
The UN has been dead since its inception.
Just like the League of Nations.
The veto power is the bullet the US misused. But the US can’t be trusted, no matter what, it is a dying hegemon.
The rapporteurs are still honorable and trust worthy people.
It’s a democracy like a lynch mob is a democracy.
Hamas does not allow any contrary protests.Women have no rights.Gays are killed.
Who put people like Netanyahu, Biden, Trump, Scholz, Sunak, Boris Johnson, Macron, Blinken, Baerbock, Nuland and many others like them in leading positions? Western Democracies are in the hands of 100% nut-jobs. How is that possible?
Suella Braverman, a Torie. She was home Sec. from Sept 6-Oct. 19, 2022 and again from Oct. 25, 2022 to Nov. 13, 2023, all the jobs she had are no more than a year, she is about as flaky as it gets, she is Indian by birth and married to a Jew who served in the IDF. She is an insanely extreme supporter of Israel, without even a little sense of common decency, a sense of humanity. She is not qualified for anything, but must have connections.
When I see his face, I imagine a big, red nose. Perfect clown, right out of the novel, IT.
To Bibi: ESAD.
Netanyahu Says ‘There Is a Date’ for Israel’s Capitulation