Iran’s reprisal attack on Israel has delayed Israeli plans to invade the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, CNN reported on Monday, citing Israeli sources.
The sources said that the Israeli Air Force was set to drop leaflets on Rafah on Monday to tell the more than 1 million civilians who are in the city that an offensive was coming. But the plan was put on hold as the Israeli War Cabinet is debating how to respond to Iran firing over 300 missiles and drones at Israeli territory, which came in response to Israel bombing Iran’s consulate in Damascus.
The US has claimed it’s opposed to an Israeli invasion of Rafah since it would incur huge civilian casualties and further disrupt aid coming in from Egypt. But the fact that Israel was planning to drop leaflets on the city demonstrates that President Biden is not putting any real pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
US officials said last week that Israel has not presented any proposals on how to account for the safety of the more than 1 million civilians who are sheltering in the city, which has a pre-war population of about 275,000.
The Israeli sources told CNN that they still plan to launch a full-scale assault on Rafah but are not sure when. The Israeli War Cabinet is focusing on how to respond to Iran and has agreed that an attack will happen, but it’s unclear where or when.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that at least 33,797 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, a number that doesn’t take into account the thousands of Palestinians who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble. Taking into account deaths caused by starvation and disease, experts are warning the death toll will top 100,000 by August if conditions don’t change and that it will be higher than 120,000 if there is a military escalation, such as an Israeli invasion of Rafah.
Who to kill, who to kill? Decisions, decisions…
Whom not to kill; whom not to kill?
“Never again.”
“Just one more time.”
Humans will do anything in pursuit of utopia. However, no matter how many lives are ruined, nothing is built to last.
Delusion all! -Lord Byron
(In other words, it’s never worth it to harm others for utopia.)
To be intelligible at all a heaven needs to be surrounded by all hell. Then within the walls of the enlightend enclave there should never arise the question of the power of creation.
If Iran would do it on a regular basis, the world could be a bit better and safer.
Oh, Perhaps that’s why your Kremlin team does it all the time.
Great fcking analogy.
Dumbasses.
Brian Berletic once again goes through the 2009 Brookings Institute paper which lays out in detail the plan to start a war between the US/Israel and Iran. As I’ve been saying, all of this that is happening is PLANNED – and it was planned YEARS AGO. The only reason it hadn’t happened before this is as I said (and the paper confirms): 1) Hezbollah, and 2) they need a way to blame Iran for the war.
The 2009 US Policy Paper that Laid out Future Israel-Iran War
Here is the paper he references:
Brookings Institution – Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran (PDF, 2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
Exactly, malice aforethought, first degree genocidal maniacs. Such is the party of Neocons and their supreme leader, BB. And even before the Brookings in ’09 is their ’96 paper “A Clean Break”, and before that Wolfowitz ’91 DOD memo on full spectrum dominance toward global hegemony. Ni Nazis ni Bolshies can match them. And the point is: How expunge this gross purulance, this outrage on humanity and God, before it kills us one and all?
The invasion of Rafah will proceed only slightly delayed as Israel waits for more US Airpower.
You can go further than that. If you read the Israel lobby and us foreign policy by John mearsheimer and Stephen Walt they explain in detail that Iran has been in the crosshairs since at least the fall of saddams regime.
Since the overthrow of the Shah, actually. And before that, Mossadegh.
That’s true
If they are in the cross hairs-why did Biden release 6 billion dollars of their funds? Why did Obama release a vast amount of Iranian funds,estimated to be up to 150 billion?
Iran really made fool of Israel as the majority of the decoyed UAVs and drones did not have explosives in them…! Saving the explosives for any potential future strikes…!
Both sides are now reevaluating their positions and warcraft.
Iran does not have a nuke. Israel has a bunch of them. Look for the Zionists to say “f*ck you!” to the world and use a tactical nuke on Iran. Israel is already giving the world the finger as it commits crimes against humanity in Gaza.
NBC News 3/8/23-Iranian Uranium enriched to 83.7%. By now,no one outside Iran knows what Iran has. ultimately,Iran will launch attacks that inflict significant casualties on Israel, and then use of any type of nukes will be in order.
Very useful video on the #IranAttack by a Swiss military professional:
Iran’s Perfectly Planned and Extremely Successful Retaliatory Attack on Israel | Col. Jacques Baud
Can’t they see we’re busy? Iran must be punished for delaying further genocide. They want the Palestinians to suffer more hunger before we genocide them? Where’s Iran’s humanity?
Says another supporter of the Russian genocide in Ukraine.
You Putin Lovers are a bunch of hypocrites.
You just cannot stay on subject, can you?
Study the fate of the Bahai people-are they not also human?
will the US, UK and French air forces down any drones or missiles aimed at Rafah to avoid escalation and save lives ????
No. It might offend the democratic state of Israel, and, prevent Israel from defending itself. /s
The word complicity seems to be evading those who are complicit.
If you vote someone down have the balls to say why. Otherwise shove your thumb up your ass.
This is a terrible situation from the perspective of Gazans ,Israelis,and people of conscience.Let Hamas release all the hostages,and defuse the situation.
They will release them when “Israel” agrees to a permanent ceasefire and self-determination.
In this world,people must be realistic if they are to progress.Hamas refused to go to Oslo and Israel certainly cannot and will not admit 2 million needy and hostile people. Hamas did have self determination in Gaza-now they blew it. Ask for pie in the sky and you get gotts. If they want to get Israel out of Gaza-return all hostages stat. end the causus belli. Do you think Israeli parents want to send their kids off to war?
Drop leaflets, kill more babies.