As Israeli ground troops fight their way to the terrorist stronghold of Gaza city, Hamas is using the Biden administration-backed ‘humanitarian corridor’ to sneak terrorists to Egypt. “Hamas tried to smuggle out its people among wounded to Egypt,” the Jerusalem Post reported Saturday, citing an unnamed senior Biden White House official.
The so-called Gaza ‘humanitarian corridor’ with neighboring Egypt was created at the insistence of the Biden White House, which has been calling on Israel to halt its military operation against the Islamic terror group Hamas.
The admission comes as Israeli military exposed that Hamas was using Gaza medical services to move terrorist and weapons across the battlefield. Israeli news website Ynet reported Saturday that “the IDF has information suggesting that the terrorist organization utilized the ambulance for transporting terrorists and weaponry.”
Hamas’s use of hospitals and medical facilities for terrorist activities is well documented. According to a recent report by the DC-based think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), the Gaza-based terrorist group “uses civilian areas, including hospitals, to store and launch rockets and spread propaganda. In violation of international law, Hamas also uses hospitals to hide command centers and shield operatives.”
The Biden White House official also slammed Israel for cutting the tax revenue transfer to the Palestinian Authority, which uses that money to pay allowances to terrorists and their families. The senior Biden staffer declared that “this is not the time to withhold funds from the Palestinian Authority – the opposite should be done.”
The remarks are in line with recent actions by the Biden administration. Days after Hamas carried out the worst massacre in Israel’s history, President Joe Biden announced additional ‘humanitarian aid’ worth $100 million to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
A senior White House official said on Saturday in a press briefing that the evacuation of the wounded and foreign citizens from Gaza was delayed because Hamas had tried to take some of its wounded fighters through the Rafah crossing to Egypt for treatment, Hebrew media sourced the official as saying.
“A third of the people who were on the list that Hamas submitted turned out to be Hamas fighters,” said the official. (…)
The White House official also said that “this is not the time to withhold funds from the Palestinian Authority – the opposite should be done.” The Biden administration opposes the cabinet’s decision from Thursday to offset part of the tax money that Israel transfers to the Palestinian Authority.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday rejected President Biden’s call for a ‘pause’ in the IDF operation against the jihadist group as it holds more than 240 Israeli hostages.
After a week-long ground offensive, the Israel tanks and infantry have swept deep into Hamas-controlled territory of northern Gaza. The IDF has encircled the terrorist-stronghold of Gaza city, the Israeli defense ministry confirmed on Friday. The ground troops were searching the terrorist-infested area for terrorist hideouts and weapons cache.
The IDF soldiers face sneak attacks from terrorists entrenched in tunnels. Hamas has built a tunnel network running over 300 miles underneath Gaza, an area the size of Las Vegas. Some of the tunnels went down to 80 meters and were equipped with electricity and telephone lines. They are used for the movement of terrorist fighters and for stockpiling rockets and weaponry.
Noting the developments on the ground in Gaza, the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Saturday:
In a significant operation yesterday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers took control of a Hamas military stronghold in northern Gaza, signaling a sharp escalation in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant organization. The IDF’s incursion into the area allowed them to conduct thorough searches, which led to the discovery of crucial intelligence material linked to Hamas operations.
The materials uncovered at the site included a range of operational orders directly tied to Hamas, detailed operational maps, sophisticated means of communication, and extensive command and control charts. Perhaps most strikingly, personal details of Hamas commanders and individuals identified as terrorists were among the documents found.
The IDF disclosed the details of nighttime operations in a Saturday morning press briefing:
Over the past day, there were numerous attempted attacks on IDF troops from tunnel shafts and military compounds in the northern Gaza Strip. IDF troops operated in the area and killed terrorists, located Hamas weapons, and uncovered tunnel shafts that were used for terror purposes.
During combat with terrorists yesterday, IDF troops engaged with 15 terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip, killing several of them, and directed tank fire to destroy three Hamas observation posts.
Also overnight, in a targeted raid in the southern Gaza Strip, IDF armored and engineering corps operated to map out buildings and neutralize explosive devices. During the operation, the troops encountered a terrorist cell exiting a tunnel shaft. In response, the troops fired shells toward the terrorists and killed them.
The Israeli air force targeted Hezbollah posts after renewed rocket fire into northern Israel. The Israeli airstrike came day after terrorist group’s chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened to open a new front on Israel’s north amid the ongoing Gaza ground operation.
The Times of Israel reported Saturday:
Footage shows Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, in response to repeated rocket and missile fire on northern Israel.
Clips shared online show massive plumes of smoke near the Lebanese village of Rmeish.
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