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[IsraelTimes] It is highly unlikely that Israel will launch its major planned military operation in the southern 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
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disproportionate response...
city of Rafah before the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, which begins around March 10, a senior US official tells The Times of Israel.
The IDF is still finishing up major operations in Khan Younis, north of Rafah, and has not finalized its plan to ensure that the million-plus Paleostinians currently sheltering in the latter city will be protected once the Israeli operation against Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...’s remaining battalions there begins, the US official says.
Any plan requiring the evacuation of that many Paleostinian civilians and the establishment of new humanitarian mechanisms to support them will take weeks to implement, the US official speculates.
War cabinet minister Benny Gantz appeared to confirm that timeline earlier this week, saying that Israel will operate in Rafah if the hostages aren’t returned by Ramadan.
US President Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call
brilliant... or is that an act?...
has stressed that such a plan is necessary before Israel launches any major offensive in Rafah and indicated Friday that the operation should not commence while hostage negotiations are ongoing.
An Israeli official tells The Times of Israel that the IDF plans to evacuate the civilians in Rafah to an area between Khan Younis and Wadi Gaza, which bisects the Strip.
The US official indicates that failure to start the Rafah operation before Ramadan may force Israel to wait until after the holy month is over to begin the offensive.
The Biden administration is working to secure a hostage deal before Ramadan begins, a second US official told The Times of Israel earlier this month, adding that Washington wants to use the humanitarian pause secured by the hostage deal to negotiate a more permanent ceasefire.