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Israel prepares to evacuate Rafah ahead of ground invasion to 'defeat remaining Hamas battalions' - hours after Biden condemned the IDF's 'over the top' conduct



Netanyahu made the announcement on Friday following international criticism of Israel's plan to invade the town

By JAMES CALLERY



PUBLISHED: 10:09 EST, 9 February 2024 | UPDATED: 04:56 EST, 10 February 2024


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to prepare a plan to evacuate the population of Rafah to defeat the remaining Hamas battalions.



It came hours after U.S. President Joe Biden said that he considers Israel's conduct in the war to be 'over the top'.



Netanyahu made the announcement on Friday ahead of an expected Israeli invasion of the southern Gaza town.



'It is impossible to achieve the goal of the war of eliminating Hamas by leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah,' Netanyahu's office said.



'On the contrary, it is clear that intense activity in Rafah requires that civilians evacuate the areas of combat.'


Netanyahu said on Friday that a 'massive operation' is needed in Rafah.



He said he asked security officials to present a 'double plan' that would include the evacuation of civilians and a military operation to 'collapse' remaining Hamas terrorist units.



Israel says Rafah is the last remaining Hamas stronghold and it needs to send in troops to complete its war plan against the Islamic terrorist group.



But an estimated 1.5 million Palestinians have crammed into the town after fleeing fighting elsewhere in Gaza.



Israeli airstrikes struck the central Gaza Strip and the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt overnight into Friday, causing nearly two dozen fatalities including women and children, witnesses and hospital officials said.



On Thursday, Biden rebuked Netanyahu at a press conference at the White House as he discussed a report on his mishandling of classified documents.



He said he was trying to broker a longer ceasefire to get humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza, and push for the release of Hamas hostages.



'I'm of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in the Gaza Strip has been over the top,' the 81-year-old President said.



'I'm pushing very hard now to deal with this hostage ceasefire. I've been working tirelessly on this deal.



'I think if we can get the delay, the initial delay, I think we would be able to extend that so that we could increase the prospect that this fighting in Gaza changes.'



Biden added that he was pushing for increased humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians and to get a temporary pause in place to allow the release of hostages taken by Hamas.



He said: 'There are a lot of innocent people who are starving, a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying, and it's gotta stop.'



U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken left Israel on Thursday as the divide grows between the two close allies on the way forward.



He was visiting to press for a cease-fire deal in exchange for the release of dozens of Hamas-held hostages.



More than half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million has been driven by Israel's military offensive toward the border with Egypt. Unable to leave the tiny Palestinian territory, many are living in makeshift tent camps or overflowing U.N.-run shelters.



The Palestinian death toll from the war has surpassed 27,840 people, the Health Ministry in Gaza said. A quarter of Gaza's residents are starving.



The war began with Hamas's assault into Israel on October 7, in which terrorists killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250. Hamas is still holding more than 130 hostages, but around 30 of them are believed to be dead.

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Netanyahu: Once We Begin the Rafah Operation, Victory Is ‘Weeks Away’


PAM KEY
25 Feb 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that victory in their war with Hamas was “weeks away” once the Israeli military operation began in Rafah, a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip.



Netanyahu said, “I’ve set three war goals. The first is to release the hostages. The second is to destroy Hamas. And the third is to ensure that Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel in the future. And obviously, the three are intertwined. They, they’re achieved, basically by our very effective and often heroic military operation. And also by tough negotiations, we’re combining the two and I hope it- it yields a result, but understand that unless we have total victory, we can’t have peace. We can’t leave Hamas in place. We can’t leave a quarter of Hamas battalions in Rafah and say, well, that’s- that’s fine, they’ll be there. It’s like saying a quarter of ISIS will be left and with a defined territory, because you know, they will reconstitute themselves immediately. So total victory is important to achieve the war goal of destroying Hamas, releasing the hostages, and ensuring that Gaza doesn’t pose a threat. But I think also is essential for any future peaceful Middle East.”



He added, “Hamas is a terrorist organization that- once we begin the Rafah operation, the intense phase of the fighting is weeks away from completion, not months, weeks away from completion. And that is- we’ve already destroyed 18 of the 24 Hamas terrorist battalions. So we- we have– and four of them are concentrated in the Rafah. We can’t leave the last Hamas stronghold without taking care of it, obviously, we have to do it. But understand, too, that I’ve asked the army to submit to me a double plan, first to evacuate to enable the evacuation of the Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and, obviously, second, to destroy the remaining Hamas battalions. That gets us a real, real distance towards the completion of our victory, and that- we’re not going to give it up. If we have a deal, it’ll be delayed somewhat. But it’ll happen. If we don’t have a deal, we’ll do it anyway. It has to be done. Because total victory is our goal, and total victory is within reach. Not months away, weeks away once we begin the operation.”

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IAF strikes Hezbollah in six areas of Southern Lebanon


MARCH 6, 2024




LEBANON WAR

The airstrikes come after a rocket volley from Lebanon damages a building in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona; in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces’ Counter-Terror Unit is operating in the heart of Khan Yunis.



Israeli Air Force jets struck Hezbollah targets in six areas of Southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday evening.



Targets included a Hezbollah military site in the area of Ayta ash Shab from which two anti-tank missiles were launched towards the area of Biranit earlier in the day. No injuries were reported in Israel in that attack.



The IDF said it also struck a Hezbollah operational command center in Jabal al-Baba; rocket-launch posts in the area of Matmoura; and military compounds in the areas of Majdal Zoun, Houla and Kafra in Southern Lebanon.



Earlier on Tuesday, a volley of rocket attacks launched from Lebanon damaged a building in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona.



Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for eight waves of attacks on northern Israel in the past 24 hours, according to data released by the Alma Center research group on Tuesday, though not for the Kiryat Shmona attack.





Israeli security forces inspect damage to a home after a Hezbollah rocket fired from Lebanon hit the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, March 5, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

The recent attacks from Lebanon included Katyusha rockets and anti-tank missiles, targeting civilian communities in the Western Galilee.



On Monday, an Indian worker was killed and nine were injured in an anti-tank missile strike on the community of Margaliot, sparking IAF airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Southern Lebanon.



The IDF also released on Tuesday footage of an IAF F-15 shooting down an unmanned aerial vehicle that intruded into Israeli airspace from Syria earlier in the day.



The footage shows air crews tracking down the UAV and discussing its location over the air force’s radio network before one pilot states, “We are monitoring the target. Immediately carrying out [the strike].”



Footage then shows an air-to-air missile shooting out of an aircraft and striking the UAV, downing it.



The UAV attack set off a Home Front Command phone application alert for open areas in the Golan Heights.



Also on Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visited the IDF Artillery Corps highly classified Moran Unit in northern Israel, which reportedly activates advanced weapons systems. Gallant was joined by senior military commanders, including the head of the Ground Forces Headquarters, Brig. Gen. Aviram Sela.



During the visit, Gallant said: “We must understand the situation we are in with regards to Hezbollah. They are continuously degrading the reality and bringing us closer to a point of decision, in which we will have to decide what we do. For us, the supreme mission is to return residents to their homes. We will do this either through an arrangement or through an operational-war operation, and this must be clear because the significance of it for you is that you could be called to it, from one minute to the next, as they say.”





The Israel Defense Forces discovered a new cache of weapons in Khan Yunis, in the central Gaza Strip, in March 2024. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. (source: JNS)

Gallant called on the military personnel to be prepared “all of the time,” adding, “I don’t wish for us to reach the stage of war and I think there is a chance of preventing it, but I repeat the very clear and very simple message I am telling you. Hezbollah is deteriorating the situation and bringing us to a decision point.”



Cache of weapons discovered in central Gaza



Meanwhile, on the southern front, the IDF announced on Tuesday that its Counter-Terror Unit (known by its Hebrew acronym, LOTAR), is conducting a special mission in the heart of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza against Hamas.



During the series of operations, the unit uncovered dozens of rocket warheads, grenades, mortars and other weapons, as well as military equipment, hidden near a school used as a shelter for displaced Gazan civilians, the IDF said.



During LOTAR Unit raids of Hamas hideouts and military strongholds in residential areas, and acting on intelligence, “the forces searched several Hamas infrastructures and located a weapons storage facility” near the school, it added.



The hidden weapons included cartridges and ammunition, while some of the munitions were concealed in sacks and hiding pits.


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