IDF Continues Operation in Hamas Rafah Stronghold As Pressure Mounts to Accept Biden’s Ceasefire Offer
“The IDF is continuing precise, intelligence-based targeted operations in the area of Rafah.”
Despite mounting pressure from the Biden administration to accept a Hamas-friendly ceasefire deal, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued the military operation against Hamas in the terrorist stronghold of Rafah.
“The IDF is continuing precise, intelligence-based targeted operations in the area of Rafah,” the Israeli military disclosed in a press release Sunday. “During operational activity, the troops located large quantities of weapons and eliminated armed terrorists in the area. A launcher used to fire at IDF troops was quickly dismantled in a coordinated operation between ground troops and the [Israel Air Force] IAF.
As part of the fighters' activity in the area, many weapons were located, including an anti-aircraft machine gun, vests, cartridges, clutches & a system for remotely activating charges. #Israel #IDF #Gaza #Rafah #Bringthemhome #NoCeasefire #Finishthefight #IDFHereos… pic.twitter.com/KTLsffnUIV
— Ora Levitt 🇮🇱 חיילת צה"ל 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי (@IDFsoldiergirl) June 2, 2024
The IDF special forces were locating and destroying Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure in and around Rafah. “The Givati Brigade Combat Team, under the command of the 162nd Division, has been conducting intelligence-based targeted operations in the Yibna area of Rafah over the last few days. The troops are eliminating terrorist operatives and destroying terrorist infrastructure in the area,” the IDF revealed in a separate statement on Sunday.
Israeli war cabinet to discuss Biden’s ceasefire deal later today
In face of growing U.S. and international pressure, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-led war cabinet is set to meet Sunday evening to discuss the Biden ceasefire deal, the Israeli media reported.
“According to a N12 report, the war cabinet will meet at 8 P.M. local time with the participation of the Israeli negotiating team presumably to discuss in depth the ceasefire-hostage deal that was presented by U.S. President Biden on Friday,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWs reported Sunday.
Prime Minister Netanyahu on Saturday rejected President Biden’s call for a permanent ceasefire, saying that anything short of Hamas’s destruction in Gaza was a ‘non-starter.’
Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition partners have threatened to leave the government if the Biden ceasefire offer is accepted, the Times of Israel reported:
The heads of the government’s two ultranationalist parties, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of Religious Zionism and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of Otzma Yehudit, both threatened to bring down the government Saturday night if a newly proposed hostage release and ceasefire deal is adopted by the government.
Both party leaders claimed that the deal would spell the end of the war without the completion of Israel’s central war aim of destroying Hamas, and vowed that they would pull their parties out of the coalition if it was accepted.
The two parties won 14 seats when running together in the 2022 elections and are crucial to the governing majority of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s core 64-strong coalition.
.@JoeBiden is desperate for the @IDF to end its campaign in Rafah. Why? What is he afraid they’ll find?
Why is Egypt dead-set against a Rafah invasion? What do they know that the IDF doesn’t (yet) know?
What are they hiding in Rafah? What’s Hamas hiding? https://t.co/rq7YwgZ0Wv— Bonnie Glick (@Bonnie_Glick) June 1, 2024
WSJ: Israel ‘shelved’ original Rafah plan under Biden’s pressure
Israel was forced to abandon the original military plan to capture Rafah due to opposition from President Biden, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
Under pressure from the Biden White House “Israel shelved its original plan for a two-division sweep through Rafah,” the WSJ wrote.
“Israel overhauled its military operations in Rafah following intensive discussion with American officials to avoid crossing the Biden administration’s red line and provoking a crisis in relations with its closest ally, U.S. and Israeli officials said,” the business daily noted.
The move has slowed down the IDF’s advance in Rafah, giving Hamas a breather as Israel tightens the noose around the terrorist bastion.
An animation of the IDF's progress through Rafah using 5-day increments. At the present rate it will take about 30 days to go through the entire city. pic.twitter.com/iHNi1rGyaK
— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) June 1, 2024
Hezbollah terrorists escalate rocket attacks on Israel
Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group continued to escalate rocket attacks into northern Israel over the weekend.
Conflict with the Lebanon-based terrorist militia in the “north has become Israel’s main front” the Israeli news website YNET noted Sunday. “The conflict in the north is not a mere skirmish, but a war that started as a secondary front to Gaza and is now escalating,” the news website reported. “Over the past weekend, Hezbollah launched dozens of projectiles, including long-range rockets that reached as far as Acre.”
🚨Hi, how was your morning?
This morning in northern Israel, children starting the new school week, instead had to run for their lives, after a Hezbollah missile attack.
This is our children’s reality in northern Israel. What would you do if this was YOUR child! pic.twitter.com/rpKWlpkY1K
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) June 2, 2024
The escalation over the weekend is part of Hezbollah’s growing aggression and terrorist buildup over the border. In the past month, Hezbollah has sharply heightened rocket fire into Israel, a recent report released by Israeli strategic think tank Alma Institute shows.
“Hezbollah attacked Israel more times last month than any month since the beginning of the war on October 7, according to a report by the Alma Institute Sunday,” the i24NEWS reported Sunday, citing the study. “In May, 325 attacks were carried out, averaging just over 10 a day. This is almost 100 more than in April, when the terror organization carried out 238 attacks, averaging 7.8 per day.”
🚨Israeli civilians are currently in bomb shelters after sirens sound in northern Israel once again. pic.twitter.com/y9vSLyz54w
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 2, 2024
“Hezbollah also significantly increased its use of anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) and anti-tank mines – twice as many as in April. In May, there were 95 ATGM incidents, compared to 50 in April. In May, there were 85 incidents of anti-tank mines, compared to 42 in April,” the TV channel added.
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JoeBama is the feffing &ss clown about plunge NATO headlong into WW3 with Russia, so JoeBama is last in line to be giving tactical advice about managing armed regional conflicts.
As I have frequently counseled Netanyahu, ‘Keep calm, and destroy hamas.’
Maybe when Biden makes any demands they should tell him it is time for him to get a diaper change. That would convey an appropriate level of respect.
Bibi must continue to stand strong,
I think he will
When will Biden be found in his underground bunker, screeching at his generals?
Grizz, you give diaper man (pResident) FAR too much credit. He’s nothing but another nasty low life parrot who plays pretend, just as barky does.
Marching orders come from people that are yet unnamed except for Sore-azz. THEY are the most dangerous creatures to free countries and yet except for secret meetings once a year, many are behind the curtain and won’t allow their names to be published in regard to these cozy get-togethers.. Red shield is another choice pick and other obscenely rich white men. They turn tricks on the gullible.
Word on the street: Bilderberg’s next meeting will be in Spain.
Screaming at his genitals.
Unfortunately Yair Lapid has offered Netanyahu that if he accepts the deal and that happens his party will vote with him so as to balance out those votes. That takes the sting out of their threat, but if it came to pass it would put Netanyahu in Lapid’s power and he could pull the trigger on him any time. Not good. Lapid is not a serious person. And Gantz is a closet leftist who believes that the “Palestinian” cause is just.
I think Netanyahu truly wants to win this war and isn’t looking for political advantage at the expense of that goal.
I doubt pressure is mounting. Israel is paying it no mind.
Internal pressure. The new Labor Party leader has just about called for insurrection.
Yes but he switched from Meretz because it couldn’t make the electoral threshold & Labor didn’t do much better. Still, despicable & the Left punches above its weight in the press, high tech & the upper echelons of the military.
Vile Biden’s and the Dhimmi-crats’ conduct and rhetoric post-October 7th have been evil, contemptible and indefensible. Giving rhetorical, diplomatic and operational succor, support, deference and legitimacy to manifestly evil, goose-stepping, genocidal, Jew-hating and Christian-hating Islamofascist and Muslim supremacist terrorist-thugs, merely because they have decided that it is in their domestic political self-interest to do so.
No President and Party could be more feckless, corrupt, morally bankrupt and greasily unprincipled.
Not just post-. It’s not a coincidence that October 7th happened a few months after the Biden administration freed up billions of dollars for Iran.
I think Biden is just playing for political advantage, but some elements in the administration, esp. those associated with Obama, genuinely hate Israel and want it wiped out and would be willing to pay a heavy political price to achieve it, because it is the goal of their current political machinations.
Joe Biden has a decades long record of hatred for Israel and undermining their security efforts.
I think that Biden is being well compensated by China, Iran, Ukraine and probably others.
Bill Burr told Bill Maher on Maher’s show that he (Burr) is “on the side of the children”
Not Jewish or Israeli children apparently.
The Israeli schoolchildren are told to run away from the school bus, because it’s reasonable to fear that Hezbollah will attack a schoolbus containing no military targets.
Hezbollah scum.
its fjbs ifff it succeeds
its israels if it fails
msm is a tricky be—atch
scott adams was consulted on what israelis should do with people who hate them and want to k 1lll them
Israel needs to walk away from Biden. Make lots of noises saying “yes, that’s nice, we’ll look into it. Have more ice cream” and just do what needs to be done.
So, what does this “cease fire” “deal” say happens when one side ceases, to cease firing?
Asking for the folks who had their daily rain of rockets become a ground incursion some months ago.