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2024-02-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Netanyahu orders Israeli military to carry out Rafah plan: airstrikes intensify while Egyptian army elements deploys on border
[GEO.TV] Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister claims to have given the Israeli military instructions to devise a strategy for driving out the last few Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
battalions in addition to evacuating people from Rafah.

At least 21 individuals were killed by Israeli snipers in Khan Younis outside Nasser Hospital, with medical personnel being among those targeted. 107 Paleostinians have bit the dust and 142 have been injured in the last 24 hours.

Israel intensifies airstrikes on Rafah in southern Gaza

[AFRICANEWS] United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Human Rights Chief, Volker Turk, on Thursday voiced deep concern about widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
by Israeli Defence Forces.

"The IDF are reportedly destroying all buildings in the Gaza Strip that are within a kilometre of the Israel-Gaza fence, clearing the area with the objective of creating a 'buffer zone'," Turk said.

He added that destruction carried out to create a buffer zone for general security purposes did not appear to be consistent narrow "military operations" exceptions set out in international humanitarian law.

"Extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly, amounts to a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and a war crime," he said.

"Since October, my office has recorded widespread destruction and demolition by the IDF of civilian and other infrastructure, including residential buildings, schools, and universities in areas in which fighting is not, or no longer taking place," the High Commissioner said.

Turk added that Israel had not provided clear reasons for "such extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure".

Game ON!




...the Border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip; this Deployment is likely to provide Extra Border Security for the eventual Israeli Ground Operation into the Southern Gaza Strip and the City of Rafah, which could cause a Surge in Palestinian Refugees towards Egypt.
The Times of Israel adds:
Since the war between Israel and Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
erupted on October 7 with the terror group’s deadly onslaught, Egypt constructed a concrete border wall that reaches six meters into the ground and is topped with barbed wire. It has also built berms and enhanced surveillance at border posts, the security sources said.

Last month, Egypt’s state information service detailed some of the measures it had taken on its border in response to Israeli suggestions that Hamas had obtained weapons smuggled from Egypt. Three lines of barriers made any overground or underground smuggling impossible, it said.

Images shared with Rooters by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, an independent group, appear to show the installation of the wall in December, with several berms running behind it.

Later pictures, which the group said were taken in early February, appear to show three vertical layers of coiled barbed wire being installed on top of the wall. Rooters was not able to independently verify the images.

Satellite images from January and December also show some new constructions along the 13-kilometer (8-mile) border close to Rafah and the extension of a wall to the sea’s edge at its northern end.

The new measures come after an expansion of security in northern Sinai as Egypt’s military consolidated its grip against an Islamist insurgency that escalated a decade ago.

Well before the current war in Gazoo broke out, Egypt said it had destroyed tunnels through which smuggling to Gaza had previously flourished, and had cleared a buffer zone close to the border.

On the approach to the Rafah Crossing with Gaza, the remains of razed houses can be seen along with miles of concrete walls that have been built parallel to the sea and near roads close to the border.
Talk to Egypt about opening their brotherly border, dudes.

Posted by Fred 2024-02-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [36 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 Europeans and Americans have a moral duty to take (total stranger) refugees in. But Egypt doesn't have to take in their "Palestinian"* brothers.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-10 02:54||   2024-02-10 02:54|| Front Page Top

#2 *Whose grandparents came from Egypt during the British mandate.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-10 02:58||   2024-02-10 02:58|| Front Page Top

#3 egypt arming the border!
to keep gazans or israelis out?
Posted by irish rage boy 2024-02-10 11:20||   2024-02-10 11:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Heavy armor and concertina against the ravaging, stateless, starving hordes. Millions of them.

Where are those cicadas?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-10 11:27||   2024-02-10 11:27|| Front Page Top

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