Biden Admin, European Powers Pressuring Israel to ‘Delay’ Gaza Offensive
Meanwhile, an IDF spokesperson said, “Hamas trying to buy time through slow ‘drip’ of hostages.”
While the Israeli military is raring to launch an offensive to destroy Hamas and liberate captives, President Joe Biden and the European powers are telling Israel to delay the ground incursion to facilitate hostage negotiations and ‘humanitarian’ operations in Gaza.
“Israel is under rising American and European pressure to delay a ground offensive into Gaza to give negotiators more time to win freedom for Hamas-held hostages,” the UK daily Telegraph reported Saturday.
Confirming the reports, The New York Times noted Sunday: “The Biden administration has advised Israel to delay a ground invasion of Gaza, hoping to buy time for hostage negotiations and to allow more humanitarian aid to reach Palestinians in the sealed-off enclave, according to several U.S. officials.”
The Biden staffers are telling the media that the Israeli military is unprepared for a ground offensive against Hamas. “The Biden administration is concerned that Israel lacks achievable military objectives in Gaza, and that the Israel Defense Forces are not yet ready to launch a ground invasion with a plan that can work, senior administration officials said,” the NYT reported Monday.
IDF: Hamas buying time through slow ‘drip’ of hostages
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) rejected assertions that troops were unprepared for the ground offensive and warned that Hamas is stalling the negotiations to fortify positions to counter an Israeli offensive.
“Hamas trying to buy time through slow ‘drip’ of hostages,” NBC reported Monday, citing IDF Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan.
The Israeli military leadership believes that the IDF is ready to take on the Hamas terrorist forces in Gaza. The armed forces were prepared for all combat scenarios, including the opening of a northern front by Lebanon-based Iran’s proxy terrorist group Hezbollah, Israeli media reports indicate.
The Times of Israel reported Monday:
The Israel Defense Forces believes that in order to attain the government’s stated objectives in the war against the Hamas terror group, the military must begin its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip sooner rather than later, The Times of Israel learned Monday.
Israel says its war against Hamas is aimed at destroying the Iran-backed terror group’s infrastructure and has vowed to dismantle the organization after the October 7 massacres. (…)
The Israel Defense Forces believes that in order to attain the government’s stated objectives in the war against the Hamas terror group, the military must begin its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip sooner rather than later, The Times of Israel learned Monday.
Israel says its war against Hamas is aimed at destroying the Iran-backed terror group’s infrastructure and has vowed to dismantle the organization after the October 7 massacres.
Should the army need to move its focus to the northern front instead of Gaza, it is confident that it could pivot within just a few days. The IDF has already heavily bolstered the Lebanon border, but most forces remain near Gaza, ahead of the expected ground offensive.
With bodies of the October 7 victims still being found and Israeli authorities struggling to identify hundreds of charred and mutilated corpses, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Israel on Tuesday, calling for creating a Palestinian state and halting of ‘settlement’ building.
Biden admin, Macron push for Two-State Solution
“Macron called for a “decisive relaunch” of the Palestinian peace process. He said he would be discussing this issue later Tuesday during his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah,” the state-run France24 TV reported Tuesday.
“French President Emmanuel Macron will call for … the creation of a Palestinian state, and “halting the colonization” of the West Bank, while visiting Israel on Tuesday, his office says,” the Times of Israel reported Monday night.
The French president appears to have the backing of the Biden White House, the report in the Israeli news website further suggests:
At the White House, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the US has not given up a two-state solution or normalization with Saudi Arabia.
“We still believe in the promise of a two-state solution. We’re still going to work on that,” he says.
“A key to eventually getting a two-state solution is normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia and we’re still going to work on that as well,” he adds.
Several French citizens were among the victims of the October 7 massacres, in which 1400 people were murdered and more than 210 were taken as hostages into Gaza. “At least 30 French nationals were killed in the attack, and seven are missing, including a confirmed hostage and several others probably held by Hamas in Gaza,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Tuesday.
Hamas promised money, apartments for Israeli captives; ordered killing of women and children
The interrogation of captive Hamas terrorists, who took part in the October 7 mass-murder, reveals that Hamas has promised $10,000 and an apartment for each Israel hostage. The terrorist group cited Islamic laws to justify the killing of innocent women and children, the interrogated terrorist disclosed.
They also admitted beheading and mutilating their victims in compliance with Hamas’ instructions ahead of the terrorist operation.
The Ynet reported Monday:
The six Hamas terrorists from the Nukhba unit, who participated in the terror attack on communities along the Gaza border, told their interrogators that Hamas offered to reward its terrorists the sum of $ 10K and provide them with an apartment in return for every captive brought back to the Strip. They said they were ordered to “kidnap the elderly, women, and children, clean houses, and expose as many captives as possible.”
During the interrogations, the terrorists provided harrowing descriptions of their actions on the day of the massacre: “Her dog came out, so I shot it”; “We took a 15-year-old girl, and we took a selfie with her”; “She was lying dead on the floor, so I shot her. The commander shouted at me, asking why I was wasting bullets on her”; “We finished, and then we set two houses on fire.”
One of the terrorists participated in the terror attack on Kibbutz Alumim and was subsequently captured by security forces. During his interrogation, he disclosed to investigators that ahead of their mission the terrorists received the approval to kill women and children from religious authorities.
“The plan was to move from house to house, room to room, throw grenades, and kill everyone there, including women and children,” he said. “Hamas instructed us to do the following: behead them and cut their legs.” The IDF also released disturbing information from his interrogation related to sexual abuse, which they chose not to publish.
IDF hits Hamas, Hezbollah terror targets
Despite foreign pressure, the Israeli military is hitting Hamas terror targets in Gaza. “During combined operational activities, IDF tanks, helicopters and artillery struck anti-tank missile launchers and observation posts in which Hamas terrorist operatives were located,” the IDF said in a statement on Tuesday morning. “Simultaneously, IAF helicopters and fighter jets struck terrorist infrastructure located in a multi-story building, as well as additional anti-tank infrastructure. During the activity, IDF forces killed a number of Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip,” the statement added.
In a wide-scale operation to dismantle Hamas' terrorist capabilities, the IDF struck over 400 terrorist targets in the past 24hrs:
🔺Hamas gunmen setting up to fire rockets toward Israel.
🔺A Hamas operational tunnel shaft allowing terrorists to infiltrate Israel through the…— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 24, 2023
Meanwhile, the IDF is responding to terrorist activities by Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border. “Clashes between Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have continued on the northern border, resulting in over night strikes on the Lebanese terror group’s military positions,” the i24NEWS reported Tuesday.
IDF: A short while ago, the IDF struck terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Among them, a military compound, a military post, and an observation post used by Hezbollah.
The strikes were conducted in responses to the rocket and anti-tank missile… pic.twitter.com/SrfYJcTSvI
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 23, 2023
Israel shows unedited footage of Hamas’ atrocities to foreign journalists
With Leftist and Islamist supporters of Hamas in the U.S. and elsewhere denying the horrific atrocities committed on October 7 despite numerous videos circulating on social media, Israel on Monday showed unedited footage taken from terrorist body-cams, surveillance cameras and cell phones in a closed-door screening for foreign journalists in Tel Aviv.
The UK newspaper Independent reported Monday:
Israel has played harrowing footage of killings during the attack by Hamas that left 1,400 people dead.
The 43 minute-long footage was captured by security cameras, body cameras worn by the attackers, vehicle dashboard cameras, social media accounts and videos from mobile phones, the Israeli military said.
It contained clips of Hamas gunmen cheering with apparent joy as they shot civilians on the road, and later stalking the pathways of kibbutzim and killing parents and children in their homes. Much of the footage was too grisly to release.
It was shown to foreign journalists in Tel Aviv on Monday, reflecting a desire from the Israeli military to counter what it has said are attempts to downplay or deny the extent of the attack. Journalists present were not able to record the compilation of footage, but a short exert was released to the public.
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Come right back at them with one of their favorite old chestnuts:
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Israel needs to do what needs to be done.
No one is going to take their side in this matter regardless if they do something today or 3 months from now . And with the Biden/Obama administration in charge that includes the US.
“The Biden administration is concerned that Israel lacks achievable military objectives in Gaza, and that the Israel Defense Forces are not yet ready to launch a ground invasion with a plan that can work, senior administration officials said,” the NYT reported Monday.
The Biden administration is the last entity to lecture anyone on “achievable military objectives.”
“Humanitarian aid” can only be provided to humans.
And a two-state solution has been in effect for the greater part of my life. The so-called “Palestinians” are incapable/have no desire to effectively administer a state. Declare the experiment failed and get out of Israel’s way
Biden is trying to handcuff Israel hoping that the longer the invasion is put off, the less likely it is to happen.
Reported today: “Hamas terrorists killed a husband and gouged his eyes out before going on to cut his wife’s breasts off and chop his daughter’s leg off, a rescue worker has revealed as yet more horrific details of the terrorists’ savage attack continue to emerge.”
Its time the Jews woke up and realised the world isnt going to help them. The gloves need to come off once and for all and deal with Hamas decisively. Let them reap what they have sown because if they dont then this will just play out again in 4 or 5 years time…but then it will be with the help of nuclear armed Iran.
4-5 yrs?
Nah, weeks
Biden needs time to stage a Pearl Harbor-style “surprise” as an excuse to go to war since his polling numbers are in the toilet.
Indictments didn’t help, so time to pivot to a last ditch effort to cling to power. Even if Trump is elected, he won’t be able to pull-out immediately, so the Deep Sewer gets what it wants regardless.
Total animals, but hey, they are good with the tech shit
“In the second segment, captured through a call recording application on a victim’s phone, a different son reaches out to a different father. “Dad, I killed 10 with my bare hands,” the terrorist excitedly tells his father in Gaza. “Their blood is on my hands, let me speak to Mom.”
“Please be proud of me, Dad,” he adds.
Identified by his father as Mahmoud, the terrorist says he is calling his family from the phone of a Jewish woman he’s just murdered, and implores them to check his WhatsApp messages for further documentation.“
Why are we so afraid of these animals?
The ME needs to be bombed into the Middle Ages, ashes, never to be seen again
Ok down vote lol is that you Hamas?
If it isn’t western media it’s western leaders in front of media. For now I doubt this media propaganda phase will change much in Israel.
No, just no. How many times are they going to play this game?
Israel knows that it’s going to end up the same, I just hope they have the strength to power through and finish what Hamas started.
As for the peace process? Don’t make me laugh, they’ve been going at the “peace” process longer than I’ve been alive and THAT will never come to pass.
Unless he’s asking because we are moving ships and such to make sure Iran behaves during the operation, then Israel should show him a finger
Israel needs to tell Biden and Europe to take a hike, then scrape Gaza down to bedrock.
It took us weeks to stage for the Battle of Fallujah, an episode that pales in comparison in scope and difficulty to what awaits IDF in Gaza. I have no idea who, if anyone, is telling Israel to slow down a bit. But, it’s good advice, particularly for a combat force that hasn’t seen heavy combat in almost 20-years. The last time IDF was engaged in this kind of operation, most of these soldiers were in diapers.
Ignoring the political implications of delay which I’m really not qualified to speak to and instead, looking at it purely in a tactical context, this pause is helping IDF in a variety of ways.
Targ, very true. If Israel is using this time to train the reservists called back to duty who haven’t been in the active military for a few years it is not time wasted. In addition they are certainly pounding Hamas command and control centers and probably staging whatever assets are needed to destroy the tunnel networks with a minimum of Israeli casualties and hopefully a maximum of Hamas casualties.
One possibility is that Hamas thought IDF would rush in to attack and rescue hostages and they probably had a plan to ambush those forces and inflict significant casualties. If so the IDF has probably obtained intelligence to significantly reduce the Hamas military capabilities and minimize their own when they commence operations.
How much money Iran pay Quisling Joe to release $6 billion and protect Hamas for Israel?