IDF Blows Up Hamas Rocket Launcher Next To Humanitarian Area Near Rafah, Anti-Israel Trolls Cry ‘War Crime’
Also, Biden admin ‘guarantees’ Hamas a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, Saudi newspaper says.
Anti-Israel trolls are again crying foul after Israeli military destroyed a Hamas rocket launcher next to a humanitarian area in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Pro-Palestinian agitators on Twitter accused Israel of a ‘war crime’ and ‘genocide’ after an Israeli fighter jet on Friday struck a launcher used by terrorists to fire rockets towards southern Israel.
“Yesterday (Friday), a launch that was identified crossing from the area of Khan Yunis toward Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha fell near the security fence area in the southern Gaza Strip. Shortly after, IAF fighter jets struck terror targets adjacent to a launch site in the area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip,” the Israeli military disclosed in a press release Saturday.
The IDF guided the Gaza civilians away from the target ahead of the strike, even at the cost of losing the element of surprise.
“Additionally, IAF aircraft struck a loaded mortar launcher ready to fire toward IDF troops in the central Gaza Strip. Furthermore, in the southern Gaza Strip, after the IDF confirmed the evacuation of civilians located near the area, IAF fighter jets struck rocket launchers aimed to launch toward Israel in the southern Gaza Strip,” the press statement added.
The incident took place in Khan Yunis, a town couple of miles from Rafah — the last remaining Hamas stronghold in Gaza. The IDF is setting up a massive tent city in the area to accommodate civilian evacuees from Rafah ahead of an impending military operation aimed at freeing the hostages and eliminating Hamas’s Gaza-based terrorist leadership.
Israeli fighter jets struck sites in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, after a rocket was fired from the area at Kibbutz Ein Haslosha yesterday, the military says.
According to the IDF, the rocket fell short and struck an area near the border fence.
In another strike in southern… pic.twitter.com/EtgX0dECXL
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Gaza ceasefire talks: Hamas makes more demands, wants end to IDF operation
While holding Israeli hostages for nearly seven months, terrorist group Hamas is again stalling negotiations — making more blatant demands. The Gaza-based terrorist group wants a complete Israel withdrawal and full cessation of military operations before a single hostage is even released.
According to news reports, Hamas has offered to release hostages in several phases, possibly giving the terrorists group time to regroup and rearm. The terror group also wants hundreds of convicted terrorists, including high-profile ones, in exchange for Israeli hostages in captivity since October 7.
In addition to releasing convicted terrorists, Israel is willing to grant a temporary truce, but rejects a complete and permanent ceasefire as demanded by Hamas.
The Times of Israel reported Saturday:
Negotiations for a potential hostage deal and truce in Gaza appeared to reach a critical moment Saturday, with Hamas set to offer its response to the latest proposal, and Israel indicating an offensive in the city of Rafah could be imminent if no agreement is reached.
With Arab and American mediators pressing intensely for a temporary ceasefire, several reports Saturday said Hamas was prepared to accept the latest proposal, in light of assurances from the United States that there will be a “sustainable cessation” of the war. (…)
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo Saturday, as was CIA Director William Burns, for meetings with Egyptian mediators.
The truce deal is believed to be composed of several potential phases, with the first phase seeing a limited release of “humanitarian” hostages for a truce of several weeks, while further phases featuring further releases and a more solid ceasefire are possible.
Citing unidentified sources, the Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper said American mediators had promised that Israel would completely withdraw from Gaza under the third and final phase, and the war would effectively end.
Hamas has been refusing to give the names of the living hostages, raising fears the many of them may have been murdered by Gaza terrorists. Some 130 Israeli hostages are still unaccounted for after seven months of captivity.
Hopes of an early ceasefire deal with Hamas ‘premature,’ Israeli official says
The Israeli government regards media speculations over the final ceasefire deal on Saturday as ‘premature,’ the country’s English language TV channel i24NEWS said.
“An Israeli official speaking to i24NEWS on the condition of anonymity on Saturday sought to rebuff reports that a ceasefire and hostage deal could be announced in the coming hours,” the TV channel reported. “Even allowing that an agreement on the framework of the deal is in place, there are still many details to thrash out, including the names of the prisoners to be released, which has yet been discussed at this stage, the official told i24NEWS.”
Biden admin ‘guarantees’ Hamas a full IDF withdrawal, Saudi newspaper says
The Biden administration has apparently ‘guaranteed’ Hamas that Israel will pull out all troops from Gaza and end the military operation in exchange for a hostage deal.
“According to the report, Hamas was guaranteed by the U.S. for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and that Israeli forces will not continue fighting once the hostages are released,” Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Saturday.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government on Saturday rejected any unilateral guarantees given by the Biden White House interlopers to Hamas. “U.S. ‘assurances’ to Hamas regarding a permanence ceasefire are theirs alone,” the i24NEWS reported quoting an Israel official.
Washington’s assurances contradict recent statements given by Prime Minister Netanyahu, members of his cabinet and top military officials, that the IDF was committed to entering Rafah terrorist stronghold regardless of a hostage deal.
The Israeli military launched the ‘Swords of Iron’ operation in the wake of the October 7 massacre with the twin objective of bringing back the hostages, and eliminating Hamas’s terrorist leadership and fighting force in Gaza.
The Israeli news website YNET reported the details published in the Saudi daily:
According to information from the Saudi newspaper “Al-Sharq,” the United States has given Hamas assurances through intermediaries that would lead to a ceasefire and an IDF pullout from Gaza, contingent on the successful completion of the expected three stages of the hostage deal and ceasefire agreement. The report further states that Hamas is expected to react favorably to these American assurances. Future efforts will be aimed at forming a national consensus for the governance and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
Biden WH rejects Israel’s humanitarian plan for Rafah op, says it’s not ‘comprehensive’ enough
In an apparent bid to prevent Israel from entering Rafah, the Biden White House rejected a detailed Israeli humanitarian and military plan for Rafah operation, claiming it is not ‘comprehensive’ enough. “US officials say details shared by Israel didn’t change administration’s view that operation would put too many non-combatants at risk,” The Times of Israel reported Saturday.
The news outlet added:
Israel this week briefed Biden administration officials on a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of a potential operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah aimed at rooting out Hamas terrorists, according to US officials familiar with the talks.
The officials, who were not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity to speak about the sensitive exchange, said that the plan detailed by the Israelis did not change the US administration’s view that moving forward with an operation in Rafah would put too many innocent Palestinian civilians at risk. (…)
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday that no “comprehensive” plan for a potential Rafah operation has been revealed by the Israelis to the White House. The operation, however, has been discussed during recent calls between Biden and Netanyahu as well as during recent virtual talks with top Israeli and US national security officials.
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The minute the Americans “approve a plan”, that plan will be given to Hamas
Israelis to Biden, “no Joe, this is not a plan for your approval. This is a plan of what we are going to do your your information and nothing more”.
That’s why the one they give the WH will not be the one they put into motion.
There are no Israeli hostages alive.
Sadly I believe you are correct. I’m hoping after Israel gets done there will be no hamass left alive either.
I agree. If there were some, they would be showing pictures of them to put pressure on Israeli to get them out, cut a deal.
So Biden is backing hostages for forced agreements against Israel
Good for the IDF. I am on their mailing list and give them money. I live in Iowa and am a member of Iowans Supporting Israel. Last year we raised tens of thousands of dollars to purchase bullet-proof vests for Israeli soldiers, made by an Iowa based company. My donation of $400 was enough to purchase one bullet proof vest. I know that is a very small donation, but I am now retired on a fixed income, and I hope my meager donation saved the life of one Israeli soldier.
its nice to see the israeli gov NOT LISTENING TO THE GLOBAL WOKE CSUCKERS!!!
fjb said:
look we gave russia back a major armsdealing warlord for some wnba playa
israel should give $50000000000000 and all captured land back to the monsters that want to destroy them and that would be
equity and equality with reparations all at once
WAR CRIME? WTH! How about when those savages STARTED that WAR when they skulked across a border and took so many hostages and were gleeful about it? How about the demeaning and vicious RAPE those creeps committed? I seem to remember an innocent defenseless baby BAKED TO DEATH as well. Where was the world outcry for that ATROCITY against humanity?
Hamas declared WAR on Israel! Now the losers are squealing for what they brought on themselves. Israel is just defending themselves from hopeless savages and preventing the TRUE WAR CRIMES from happening again.
It’s never a good idea to start a war you can’t finish, and especially when the people of that country are SO MUCH SMARTER !
“War Crimes” I do not think that term means what they think it means.
A war crime would be dinging a mortar launcher, while targeting some civilian area.
I don’t think I would pick the Brandon Administration to negotiate for me, whatever country I was. Not honest brokers, as we’ve seen with internal policies for years now.
I wonder, why doesn’t The Brandon Administration want the Israelis to go in and spring the US hostages still there.
Oh, wait. Dual-citizen American newly missing his hand isn’t so great for the “competent adults in charge” reelection pitch.
Swap hand with head and your there.
The “war crime” was Hamas putting that launcher next to a humanitarian area.
Yes. In a sane world it would be exactly this.
However we don’t live in a sane world 🙄🤬
Face it, “war crime” is a nonsensical invention leading to the false conclusion that leftist hand wringers at the ICC have influence. The Nuremberg trails were more publicly palatable than dragging Nazi leaders out and executing them as they deserved, so it was mostly a legal-looking veneer. The truth is there is no international law without benevolent sovereign nations (that is, first Britain then the USA) as enforcers. And when these benevolent world leaders are gone, killed by the hand of domestic leftist “elites” (read traitors) the world will be massively more a Hobbesian.
The Nuremberg trials, an interesting study. The American position was as the Nazi elites were captured. They would be summarily executed. the British insisted on some sort of due process and the Soviets agreed with the British, but solely for the purpose of staging show trials.
This is not remotely a war crime. Holding hostages is a fresh war crime each day each hostage is held.
“A Hamas delegation was in Cairo Saturday, as was CIA Director William Burns, for meetings with Egyptian mediators.”
It seems likely that the CIA wants Hamas to win.
Good God! Who wants or needs any advice from Prez Afghan Rout? Anything he says should be rejected out of hand along with stern suggestions for where he can shove his ideas and where he can go after that.
Nuke Gaza from orbit, it would benefit the entire world. And ship the miscreants protesting at our colleges over there beforehand.
I’m a problem solver.
Well, it is. Just not for the IDF.