Biden Offers Israel Intel on Hamas Leaders’ Location in Bid to Avert Rafah Offensive
Washington Post: The “sensitive intelligence” offered by Biden admin could “help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels.”
The Biden administration has offered intelligence that could help the Israeli military locate Hamas leaders hiding inside Gaza if Jerusalem abandons the plans to capture the terrorist stronghold of Rafah, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
The Biden administration’s offer suggests that Washington may have been withholding critical intelligence that could lead to the elimination of Hamas’s top terrorist leadership and shorten Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
According to the newspaper, the “sensitive intelligence” offered by Washington could “help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels.” The administration also offered humanitarian aid for displaced Gazans if Israel scales down the ongoing operation in Rafah.
After withdrawing most of the ground troops from Gaza in early April amid mounting pressure from the Biden White House, Israel launched a limited offensive in eastern Rafah on Monday, Hamas’s last standing stronghold. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday expanded the Rafah operation after getting a nod from the country’s war cabinet.
The Washington Post reports:
The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers.
American officials have also offered to help provide thousands of shelters so Israel can build tent cities — and to help with the construction of delivery systems for food, water and medicine — so that Palestinians evacuated from Rafah can have a habitable place to live, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to disclose secret diplomatic talks.
President Biden and his senior aides have been making such offers over the last several weeks in hopes they will persuade Israel to conduct a more limited and targeted operation in the southern Gaza city, where some 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering after fleeing there from other parts of Gaza under Israeli orders. Israel has vowed to go into Rafah with “extreme force,” and this week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a number of steps that raised fears at the White House that the long-promised invasion could be materializing.
Administration officials, including experts from the U.S. Agency for International Development, have told Israel it will take several months to safely relocate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are now living in decrepit and unsanitary conditions in Rafah. Israeli officials disagree with that assessment.
Rafah: Hamas ‘reassembling’ terror fighters and assets as IDF expands operation
As Israeli military expands its ground operation in Rafah, Hamas is reportedly trying to regroup its jihadi fighting force and restore its terrorist infrastructure in the area.
The IDF “reported beginning an operation overnight based on intelligence information regarding attempts by Hamas to reassemble its terrorist infrastructure and operatives in specific areas of eastern Rafah and on the Gazan side of the Rafah Crossing,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported. “IAF fighter jets and additional aircraft struck approximately 30 terror targets in the area and killed several Hamas terrorists, read the IDF statement.”
The ongoing military operation was not a full-scale offensive but limited to tactical strikes on Hamas targets, the IDF assured. “The Israel Defense Forces is continuing its precise operation against Hamas in Rafah as part of our efforts to achieve an enduring defeat of Hamas and bring all our hostages home,” IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Sunday. “Our operations against Hamas in Rafah remain limited in scope and focus on: tactical advances; tactical adjustments; and military advantages — and have avoided densely populated areas.”
While Hamas continued firing rockets at Gaza’s main humanitarian border crossing of Kerem Shalom, disrupting the aid supply to the enclave, the IDF was delivering aid and running field hospitals for Gazans.
“Our war is against Hamas, not against the people of Gaza,” the IDF spokesman said. “Over the last few days we facilitated the entry of 200,000 liters of fuel through the Kerem Shalom crossing; we facilitated and coordinated the opening of a new field hospital in Central Gaza; and we are operating to enable the flow of humanitarian aid to Rafah through the Salah Al-Din Road.”
“Over the last few days alone, we were all reminded why our pursuit against Hamas is vital…”
🔴Watch an operational update from IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari about the IDF’s precise operation in Rafah: pic.twitter.com/OF0TTM9tmy
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 11, 2024
The IDF also carried out strikes against the remnant of Hamas’s terrorist force trying to raise its head in the north.
“Following calls to the civilian population to temporarily evacuate from the area of Jabaliya to shelters in western Gaza City, IDF troops began an operation overnight based on intelligence information regarding attempts by Hamas to reassemble its terrorist infrastructure and operatives in the area,” the IDF revealed in a press statement Sunday. “Prior to the entry of the troops, IAF fighter jets and additional aircraft struck approximately 30 terror targets in the area and eliminated several Hamas terrorists.”
The IDF launched an operation against Hamas in northern Gaza's Jabaliya overnight, after it says Hamas was identified regrouping in the area.
Ahead of the entry of the 98th Division into Jabaliya, fighter jets and other aircraft struck some 30 Hamas targets, killing several… pic.twitter.com/6VCjUgfXb8
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) May 12, 2024
UN halves estimate of women and children killed in Gaza, report suggests
New figures have once again raised questions about the fantastical casualty numbers being issued by the Hamas Health Ministry. According to the Jerusalem Post, even the United Nations — a body plagued with anti-Israel bias — revised the Gaza casualty figures in its recent report, halving the number of women and children killed in the conflict.
Besides being fabricated, the Hamas ministry’s inflated figures do not distinguish between civilians and terrorists. The mainstream media, college activists and hostile foreign governments have been using these fake figures to maligne and condemn Israel.
Despite Hamas using Gaza civilians as human shields, the IDF has created “new standard for urban warfare,” British military historian and expert John Spencer notes.
“Israel has made over 70,000 direct phones calls, sent over 13 million text messages and left over 15 million pre-recorded voicemails to notify civilians that they should leave combat areas, where they should go, and what route they should take,” Spencer wrote in a March 25 article published in Newsweek. “They deployed drones with speakers and dropped giant speakers by parachute that began broadcasting for civilians to leave combat areas once they hit the ground. They announced and conducted daily pauses of all operations to allow any civilians left in combat areas to evacuate.”
More than 15,000 Hamas terrorists have been eliminated by the Israeli military since October 7, The Times of Israel confirmed Sunday.
The Jerusalem Post reported UN’s ‘revision’ of Hamas’s fake casualty numbers:
The United Nations seemingly halved the estimated number of women and children killed in Gaza, according to UN data published on May 6 and 8.
The UN published the number of fatalities reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health or the Government Media Office in Gaza and Israeli authorities.
The UN provided a disclaimer below the data: “The UN has so far not been able to produce independent, comprehensive, and verified casualty figures.”
On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children.
On May 8, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been killed, including 4,959 women and 7,797 children.
The new figures showed the number of identified deaths as of April 30, which total 24,686 people; the new data also specified that 10,006 men had been killed and 1,924 elderly.
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You know they have had the intel for years
Like 3.5 yrs
Is there any chance of giving Israel our worst political hacks to try for war crimes?
The truth is that our current leaders are to some degree responsible for death of Israelis.
Israel should carry on, exterminating all terrorists. Considering that ma majority of Plaes support Hamas, there should be no relief until the job is complete & Pales are begging for forgiveness, unconditional surrender.
If US intel is so good then why didn’t they warn Israel of the Oct 7 attack plans? Synopsis for US intel: Hamas fighters are in Gaza. There… done.
If US intel is so good why don’t they reveal Biden’s mental health is totally deteriorated and is not running the country? It doesn’t take much intelligence to know that.
They may well have known. It appears everyone but Israel knew
Think of all the “journalists “ that were there for the “fun”
All the outside media hired Palestinians as stringers
“Sensitive intel offered by Biden admin to help Israeli military pinpoint location of Hamas leaders”
If they really did so they would not make it public. Publicly telling the world you are going to reveal the location of Hamas leaders is giving them a heads up. They’ve obviously changed locations by now. This is nothing more than a publicity stunt to bolster Biden’s base..
🎯
I mean really
The Biden administration’s offer suggests that Washington may have been
withholding critical intelligence that could lead to the elimination of Hamas’s top terrorist leadership and shorten Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
This part I believe though….
They did not want people to know that Sinwar was on Martha’s Vineyard shmoozing with Barack and Michelle.
If you accept our US intelligence, you will be immune to Hamas terrorism, and in the rare event you do catch some, you will not pass it on to others.
Our intelligence is safe and effective!
Bidenelligence is visibly working, to make the world safer!
Bull Back Better!
Biden has been, and continues to, protect Hamas.
Why is the US Govt not acting upon this intelligence info in order to kill/capture these SR Hamas goons ourselves to pressure for the return of the five US Citizens taken captive from Oct 7? Seriously WTF? Yes we all know the Biden admin isn’t exactly proactive about securing US interests and is far too cozy/cuddly with Iran and its proxies but damn….
Never has an American President not made the enemy who captured or murdered Americans , pay the price
It’s absolutely open season on Americans
Including our own country, your daughter raped or murdered by illegal, so sorry, forgetaboutit
Never?
James Carter
Barry Soweto Obama
I suspect a very strong muslim influence in our decision making process. When was the last time you saw muslims side with Israel and not the islamic terrorists? They just don’t do that.
For people that aren’t tribal in their mindset it is really hard to realize a lot of the nonsense we see is due to tribal thinking.
Maybe, it is absolutely true that the d/prog have descended into tribal thinking. IMO it is the bureaucratic resistance/hesitancy to PO Qatar and/or Saudi +Kuwait and potentially disrupt oil flow which reduces supply causing prices to rise across the economy less than a year before the Presidential election.
On the other hand our separate views are not in any way incompatible so both could be and probably are simultaneously true.
The WaPo is peddling this alleged intelligence as real. The same ones who said the Wuflu originated in a “wet market” and totally not in a Chinese bioweapons lab. The same ones who assured us the puppet Afghanistan government wouldn’t collapse even before we could cut and run. The same ones who wanted us to believe that Putin’s Russian army was just about to collapse in the face of the brave resistance of plucky Ukrainian “freedom fighters”. ‘Nuff said.
If the Israelis are dumb enough to fall for this psyop of the Hamas bootlickers in the Joseph Goebbels media they deserve what happens to them.
US intelligence didn’t think Ukraine would last a week with the Russian invasion.
Do I believe Biden, the WAPO and our ‘intelligence’ people? NO.
Can you say blackmail?
Good, I knew you could.
Wouldn’t it be greet when about late October Isreal displays some video of Biden in a compromising position.
Be it play for pay or videos of him fondling a little girl, you never know what the Mossad has on him.
Another quid pro quo? He deserves impeachment, but better to vote him out and then prosecute him for stealing classified documents as a senator. He will surely like the precedents he’s established.
Given that the US has publicly sided with Hamas against Israel, does it not make sense that a) any information that the US gives Israel about Hamas’ leaders is a lie and leads to an ambush, and b) that maybe the US has been giving intel data about Israel to Hamas since at least 2021?
Subotai Bahadur
Yeah it’s a(nother) campaign messaging op, as is everything they do.
Some people don’t much worry about what you have to say, to keep people from getting killed. These people don’t much worry about how many people get killed by what you say and do to get elected again.
fjb helped the kkk/hamas while trying to act like he was a friend to poc/israel
the hate for the america first policies of the maga crowd will continue to spur on the lefty
lefty only knows violence
win or lose
history has proven that
“…in Bid to Avert Rafah Offensive.”
So, none of reducing casualties, safety for Israel or in Gaza, success of eliminating Hamas. “Avert Rafah Offensive” or let them say otherwise.
They don’t want Israel going in, because in the end they’re for the prior status quo. What an interesting thing to prefer.
Of course Barry III Administration doesn’t want Israel to remove Hamas in Gaza. Then, they’d be fighting a one-less-front war. They might build on that to remove Hezbollah from Lebanon; active Iranian proxies from Syria, and maybe even a few more launch sites in Iran. Tho not so precisely targeted if the US has anything to do with it.
These people really like their forever wars, no matter how many generations get chewed up in those meat grinders. Sad.
fjb said
israel is harming the blmplo
like the whi te supremacists are doing to people in
chiraq
la
oakland
san fran
nyc
This is disgusting and what Democrats couldn’t give a flying fuck about is that them being Democrats and doing everything possible to hinder Israel only makes the war last longer…which results in more Palestinians being killed.
This is the same in the Ukraine, by prolonging that war it just means more Ukrainians will have to die because the only strategy Democrats have is MWOOOOOOOORE WAAAAAAAR ALL THE TIME!