Report: Israel Building Large Tent City Ahead of Possible IDF Operation in Rafah
The Wall Street Journal: The IDF “gearing up to complete what it says is unfinished business: Uprooting Hamas from its last stronghold in the Gazan city of Rafah.”
Israel is building a large tent city in southern Gaza to accommodate civilians moving out of Rafah as the military gears up for an operation against the last remaining Hamas stronghold, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
“Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show a new compound of tents being built near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip as the Israeli military continues to signal it plans an offensive on the city of Rafah,” the news agency disclosed.
The Israeli military has succeeded in erecting the makeshift city in a few days, the news reports suggest. “Photos from satellite imaging company Planet Labs show a marked build up of tents in a uniform pattern near Khan Younis,” the Daily Mail (UK) reported, referring the material published by the AP News. “The photos, taken three days apart on April 18 and April 21 respectively, show white structures being built up significantly over a short period of time.”
Israeli news reports that tents are being constructed in Khan Yunis to evacuate civilians before the IDF begins its operation in Rafah, where Hamas’s remaining battalions are hiding out. pic.twitter.com/4rnb9wPYJF
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 23, 2024
Days after Israeli missiles penetrated Iran’s air defenses to hit military targets in retaliation to a recent Iranian aerial strike, the IDF is preparing to capture the last Hamas stronghold, where the terror group’s top leadership is holed up — using Israeli hostages as human shields.
According to The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, “Israel’s military is gearing up to complete what it says is unfinished business: Uprooting Hamas from its last stronghold in the Gazan city of Rafah.”
On Tuesday, The Times of Israel also noted Jerusalem’s resolve to destroy Hamas after the terrorist group rejected the latest ceasefire offer earlier this month:
Their construction, however, comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened “additional painful blows” targeting Hamas over the breakdown of talks over trying to free the remaining hostages held in the Gaza Strip.
That could include the long-threatened attack on Rafah, where half of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people have fled amid the war. The US, Israel’s main ally, has repeatedly said any military operation needs to protect civilians.
Netanyahu has said he would order the military to evacuate civilians from Rafah for the offensive, but it is not clear where they could go.
IDF launches raid in northern Gaza
The IDF on Tuesday launched a raid in northern Gaza, evacuating some areas ahead of the combat operation.
“The IDF is calling on some residents of northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya to evacuate to other areas of the town, as the military launches a new operation in the area,” The Times of Israel reported. “Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, publishes a list of the zones that need to be evacuated alongside the announcement.”
Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip towards Sderot a short time ago. pic.twitter.com/XLNC94OQI7
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) April 23, 2024
Despite the recent troop withdrawal from Gaza, the IDF continues to conduct limited ground operations and precision airstrikes against Hamas targets across the terror-infested enclave.
The Israeli air forces hit Hamas’s rocket firing capabilities. “Based on IDF intelligence and operational identifications, IAF fighter jets completed several airstrikes overnight on Hamas launch posts located in southern Gaza. The launch posts were loaded, but were struck before any launches were carried out toward Israeli territory,” the Israeli military said in a press release Tuesday morning.
According to the IDF, the military and the air force continued to destroy Hamas terror targets across Gaza:
IDF troops continued their counterterrorism activity in the central Gaza Strip’s corridor. During one of the activities, the troops eliminated a number of terrorists using sniper fire. Additionally, an IAF aircraft struck several terrorists who hid adjacent to a civilian shelter in the area of Bureij. The strike was carried out in a targeted and precise manner.
Over the past day, IAF fighter jets and additional aircraft struck approximately 25 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including military infrastructure, observation posts, terrorists, launch posts.
IDF eliminates two ‘significant’ Hezbollah terrorists after drone strikes from south Lebanon
Emboldened by the recent Iranian aerial strike on Israel, the Tehran-backed Hezbollah terror militia stepped up drone and rocket attacks into northern Israel. Hezbollah on Tuesday conducted the ‘deepest’ drone attack on Israelis since October 7, reaching the north city port city of Acre.
“Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah said on Tuesday it had launched a drone attack against Israeli military bases north of the city of Acre, in its deepest strike into Israeli territory since the Gaza war began,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “The IDF said it had no knowledge of any of its facilities being hit by Hezbollah, but had said earlier on Tuesday that it intercepted two “aerial targets” off Israel’s northern coast.”
The IDF responded by hitting terror targets in southern Lebanon, and eliminating two ‘significant’ Hezbollah terrorists operating in the area.
This was the reality in northern Israel this Passover morning.
As Israeli families try to enjoy peaceful moments with their loved ones, Hezbollah targets their terrorism toward them.
Even during a holiday, Israeli civilians are running to shelters and living in the painful… pic.twitter.com/b4QbGwt2nt
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 23, 2024
The IDF revealed the profile of the two slain Hezbollah terrorists in a press release Tuesday afternoon:
This morning (Tuesday), IAF aircraft struck and eliminated Hussein Ali Azkul, a significant terrorist operative in Hezbollah’s Aerial Defense Unit in southern Lebanon. Azkul was heavily involved in the planning and execution of terrorist attacks against Israel and was involved in the Hezbollah’s Aerial unit’s routine activities. His elimination significantly harms the capabilities of Hezbollah’s Aerial Unit.
Additionally, overnight, the terrorist Sajed Sarafand, a significant terrorist of the Radwan Forces’ Aerial Unit in the Hezbollah terrorist organization was eliminated in the area of Arzoun.
In his role, Sarafand led and promoted terrorist attacks against Israel.
Israeli fighter jets struck two buildings in southern Lebanon's Ayta ash-Shab and Blida a short while ago, where the IDF says Hezbollah operatives were gathered.
Additional buildings used by Hezbollah in Markaba were also struck, the IDF adds. pic.twitter.com/S2NMrYIYvx
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 23, 2024
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And where will they move them then? They’ve been kicked out of every Muslim country in the middle east. And you can’t blame any of that on Israel.
Move them from the river to the sea. The sea’s got plenty of room.
Tell them not to forget their rocks… fill your pockets with your rocks
Yes, by all means, drown every single one of them, all the women, children, babies, and old people. Don’t stop at eliminating Hamas, which is the goal of Israel. Instead, kill every single one of them, which is the goal of a sociopath like you, and which is not the goal of Israel, thank g_d.
Sociopaths vote in governments like Hamas. Sociopaths support Hamas. A majority of “Palestinians” are sociopaths
You are a fool who is playing directly into the hands of Hamas and the Palestinians. Idiots like you, who advocate killing babies, children, women, and old people, just because they are Palestinians, feeds directly into their narrative. And then your comments are published worldwide to show that Israeli supporters want to massacre all Palestinians. Thankfully the Israeli government and the IDF are a whole lot smarter than you are.
JR
your “humanitarianism” is what the evil of hamas and other leftists count on to continue their savagery
Hamas etc actually seek out innocent men women and children to slaughter
Israel is in constant defense mode..just the way the nazzzicommunists want
Don’t worry, there will be free, granted cheap, floaties. That is far better treatment that those butchered Jews received.
None of this would be necessary if Pales stopped their all or nothing demands and stopped acting on their hatred, even better stop their irrational hatred.
Pales have brought this on themselves, all or nothing demands mean they should have nothing.
Tents seem extravagant, why not cheap tarps and 5 poles? All funds expended in cleaning out Hamas should be offset in lower welfare benefits. It is BS that Israel is paying for water, electricity, etc. for those parasites
Don’t worry, YOUR tax dollars will be hard at work solving that ‘problem.’ After the politicians and all the NGO’s who ‘donate’ to the Dims take their cut off the top, of course.
How does the IDF plan to screen and evacuate civilians before they begin its operation in Rafah without Hamas’ remaining battalions coming across the border along with the civilians?
I bet Bibi is doing this to keep Blinken off his back.
I look forward to Israel presenting a claim on “relief” funds for the relief it provided that the relief operations did not.
I wonder if Traitor Joe called Hunter to stop by the Oval Office recently to inform him that Joe’s arranged a summer internship for Hunter–as a director on the Board of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)?
A “large tent city” ….. could we ship them the Hamas supporters from Columbia?
Thisnis exactly what we need for our homeless
Encampments in non populated areas, like west Texas, Nevada deserts, cots , food, basic medical
They can section they want to live their life there , get sober ( there), or return to society as a productive member again
No more living on our streets, in parks, downtowns , anywhere productive human beings live
That’s it, end of story
Funny story about life in the middle east and this … A while back there was a group of Bedouins in Israel who had settled down, fo rthe most part, and were living in their traditional tents on some land. The Israelis used to feel bad driving by them and seeing them in the ratty tents, seemingly eking out a life with no modern amenities. So Israel decided to build them a whole neighborhood. They came in and built a whole set of new, modern houses, up to the latest standards. Beautiful places.
The Bedouins moved in … but after a month or so they had all pitched their old tents on their front lawns and were living in them. Israelis couldn’t really understand it … because, even after all those years, the Israelis still didn’t understand how different arab culture was from Western culture. The Bedouins preferred their tents.
Anyway, that’s my Israeli arab tent story.
Maybe the Columbia kids could send some of their tents out to Gaza to help their buddies out?
their tent city is better than the san fran chicago etc
israel allows palestinians to come into the country and work
israel tends and gives medical treatment to the same
all proven all documented
what does the plo give in return???
yup
murd er carnage etc