The Israeli military on Wednesday ramped up its ground assault and strikes on Gaza as Israeli officials announced plans to take over more land in the Palestinian territory.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the IDF was expanding operations in Gaza to clear “terrorists and infrastructure and capture extensive territory that will be added to the State of Israel’s security areas.”
Later in the day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military would seize the “Morag axis,” using the name of an Israeli settlement that once existed in the area to describe the territory between the southern Gaza cities of Rafah and Khan Younis. According to Haaretz, the Israeli military said the purpose of the operation is to encircle Rafah.
Netanyahu said the territory would serve as a “second” Philadelphi Corridor, referring to the strip of land on the Gaza-Egypt border that Israel has occupied since May 2024. “Because we are currently dividing up the strip, we are adding pressure step by step so that our hostages will be given to us,” Netanyahu said.
The ramped-up assault on southern Gaza comes two days after the Israeli military ordered the forced evacuation of the entire city of Rafah and nearby areas.
Medical officials told Al Jazeera that at least 77 Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks on Wednesday. One Israeli attack in Khan Younis killed 12 displaced Palestinians, all members of the same family. Another strike on a UN-run clinic in northern Gaza killed 22 people, including nine children.
Before the latest Israeli escalations, Netanyahu warned he would increase the “pressure on Hamas” and said his long-term plan for Gaza was Hamas disarming, its leaders being expelled, Israel taking complete control of Gaza, and the implementation of President Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan, which he calls “voluntary migration.”
Gaza remains under a total Israeli blockade, which was first implemented on March 2 and forced all bakeries in the Strip to close on Tuesday due to the lack of food supplies and fuel. The US has been fully supportive of Israel’s collective punishment of the civilian population of Gaza.
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And nothing has changed since then. It has gotten worse. And why not, the US has been supporting Israel ever since and the world looks on.
By now they truly feel that they are winning and bible prophecy is being fulfilled about greater Israel being victorious against the "world's unbelievers".
Someone mentioned yesterday that it says in the bible that Gaza belongs to Israel and god is helping them achieve that. It almost looks like it when I come here daily and Israel and the US are bombing the heck out of Arabs all over and other than people being outraged and the UN being outraged, the killing goes on daily with our war department sending each other emogies of how successful they are killing people.
Ah, people drop bombs in wars. The only war is with the groups that attack Israel. Hamas exists for one purpose – to destroy Israel. So, it may shock you, but some Israelis refuse to be killed.
Meanwhile, much of the Arab world does not support Hamas. They are part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is at war with the Egyptian government. Hamas is also at war with the Palestinian Authority, which he tossed out of Gaza during a violent coup.
Do you want the war to end? Then tell your friends – Hamas – to release all hostages and surrender. The war would end tomorrow.
It’s amazing how people like you can keep spouting the same bullshit without the slightest hint of irony. Hamas would never exist if Israelis hadn’t continued to ethnically cleanse, imprison, and murder Palestinians. Strangely enough, Gazans just weren’t that happy living in the world’s largest open air prison. Every single day the Zionists out themselves as the murderous liars they are and this time, the world is actually noticing. Too bad for you.
1. Typical of people with nothing to support their arguments, they resort to childish personal attacks. That's just an admission you have nothing valid to say.
2. Your comments about Hamas are bumper stickers; obviously, you are not well informed about the actual history of Hamas.
As for the Israeli treatment of Palestinians, Israel only attacks people who attack them. You ignore the fact that Israeli Arabs live very well, and actually have more rights than those in any Arab country. For some reason, you don't care about Arabs in Arab countries while ignoring Israeli Arabs, who in fact have the longest life expectancy in the Arab world. Of course, you have no response to this.
And you are probably an American, and would rather attack Israel than look at your own country and behavior. You talk of irony, but ignore the irony that an Israeli Arab has a longer life expectancy that an Africa American (78 vs 77 years). You profit from and are protected by a system that discriminates against African Americans, yet you feel entitled to lecture other countries that are doing better than you are on these issues. That's comical.
3. The "open air prison" cliché isn't effective because it isn't true. Israel left Gaza in 2006, and Hamas occupied the territory in a violent coup soon afterwards. Further, Israel has left Hamas alone and allowed billions of dollars in aid to reach the territory. This peaceful gesture was responded to with the mass slaughter of its citizens on Oct. 7 (something you conveniently forgot, or perhaps you support the mass extermination of Israelis as "justified").
And this "prison" we now see has beautiful beaches, luxury high-rises, late-model cars, farms, orchards, universities, million-dollar MRI and CT scanners, advanced hospitals, etc. 100% of the Third World doesn't enjoy a fraction of this type of affluence.
And Gaza could have been a prosperous, peaceful place. All they had to do with not kill Israelis. That's it. If they just agreed to be peaceful,, they could have the same peaceful relations that Israel has with Jordan and Egypt.
But instead of asking Hamas to surrender and end their war, you encourage them to keep fighting and killing Israelis, by blaming Israel. That's not supportable by a single fact in your statement – which is why you have zero links or sources, of course.
“Israel left Gaza in 2006”
And has physically and economically blockaded it ever since.
Absolutely. The two nations that border Gaza (Israel and Egypt) both have closed their borders to a group that is openly hostile to them.
The same is true for any hostile border – North and South Korea, India/Pakistan, India/Bangladesh, Sudan/South Sudan, Cambodia/Thailand, Ukraine/Russia, etc.
Economically? Israel allowed billions of dollars of aid to flow into Gaza; they also provided electricity, desalinization, and healthcare services. This is because Hamas spent millions on developing their military. Then, Hamas repaid these gestures by slaughtering, torturing, and kidnapping Israeli civilians.
If a group of people openly dedicated themselves to my destruction, I would not want them to enter my country, and I would not support them economically. You are free to feel differently.
"Typical of people with nothing to support their arguments, they resort to childish personal attacks. "
Ha! and yet….nothing to support your claims. Is hypocrisy and paranoia just ingrained in your DNA? Are you so overly sensitive that calling your post "bullshit" is a "personal attack." Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing, as they say….
"Israel only attacks people who attack them" Sure, just ignore the violent displacements and massacres that started with the Nakba and continues to this day. Were those toddlers with bullet holes in their head and chest (as described by Dr. Perlmutter) attacking Israel? How about those 15 paramedics they just uncovered from a mask grave with their hands tied behind their backs? Hind Rajib? Shireen Abu Akleh? Rachel Corrie? You lie as easily as you breathe? Do you need references on these events?
Personal? Sure. Accurate? Damn right.
"And Gaza could have been a prosperous, peaceful place. All they had to do with not kill Israelis." Again, bullshit. The early Zionist leaders made it clear that all of "Eretz Israel" was to be theirs, but they had to caution themselves about being too greedy up front, ie with the 1947 Partition Plan, and to accept what they could get and work toward the rest later. Need a reference? The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" –Ilan Pappe.
"Israeli Arabs live very well, and actually have more rights than those in any Arab country" and "Israel has left Hamas alone". Can you name another country in the world, Arab or not, where a group of people are blockaded in a tiny strip of land and deprived of basic necessities. Before Oct 7, Israel wouldn't allow chocolate or coriander in the Strip, periodically spoke of 'putting Palestinians on a diet" and "mowing the lawn" with events like Operation Cast Lead. Do you really need me to provide the references on this? You're a Zionist. Your job is not to find the truth, but to defend the worst of the worst, as Alan Dershowitz brags. Your reflexive mendacity, or maybe intentional ignorance, is galling.
I am American, and while my country has many faults, nothing is more shameful than its reflexive support, bought with the dollars of AIPAC and the Adelsons, of Israel.
Of course someone like you would refer to it as a “war” when the Palestinians have no Air Force, no Navy, no tanks, and the most rudimentary of weapons. Then again, that’s the only type of war Israelis like to fight. IDF are the biggest cowards on the face of the earth. Shooting Israeli captives who are waving white flags, sniping children and medics…the list goes on. Would be interesting to see what would happen if the cowards fought a real enemy…oh wait we already saw that in Lebanon didn’t we?
War is war. Call it whatever you like – it is all a continuation of the 1947-48 war.
And talk about cowards – the war Hamas likes to fight is hiding in hospitals, schools, and behind women and children. And you think Hamas fighters are brave heroes for slaughtering children and babies.
And urban warfare is considered the most dangerous form of warfare, with snipers, booby traps, and other constant threats, but Hamas lack the courage to fight face to face with Israelis. They prefer to slaughter old women and children, then run and hide. Such bravery!
Who said we don't learn history? We definitely learned that the Roman Empire called their enemies, "Barbarians."
Time for Israel to find the light and the love of the one true Jesus Christ!
Lost children… Tears….. …… ……..
Sure, grab the whole thing, and the W Bank too. After all, you're implementing the one state solution that we all know is the future for the holy land: a land for all of God's children of every religion and ethnicity to live in equality.