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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to plan for the “evacuation of the population” from the area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, his office said in a statement on February 9.
More than 1.3 million people are believed to be in Rafah -which is located on the border with Egypt- the majority displaced from other parts of Gaza, according to the United Nations.
In the statement, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said that it was not possible to both eliminate the Hamas Movement and leave “four Hamas battalions in Rafah.”
“On the other hand, it is clear that a massive operation in Rafah requires the evacuation of the civilian population from the combat zones,” the statement said. “That is why the Prime Minister directed the IDF and the defense establishment to bring to the Cabinet a dual plan for both the evacuation of the population and the disbanding of the battalions.”
Earlier this week, Netanyahu said that the IDF would “soon go into Rafah,” describing the border area as “Hamas’s last bastion.”
The office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned in a statement released on February 9 the plan for military escalation and called a potential evacuation a “real threat” and “dangerous prelude” to the Israeli displacement of Palestinian people from their land.
“The time has come for everyone to bear their responsibility in the face of creating another catastrophe that will push the entire region into endless wars,” the statement said.
From its side, Hamas warned on February 10 that there could be “tens of thousands” of dead and injured if the IDF attacks Rafah.
In a statement, the group said that any military action would have catastrophic repercussions that “may lead to tens of thousands of martyrs and injuries if Rafah… is invaded.”
Hamas added that it would hold “the American administration, international community and the Israeli occupation” responsible if that happened.
The IDF has already intensified strikes on Rafah in preparations for the attack. Israeli airstrikes killed at least 31 Palestinians in the area early on February 10, the Associated Press reported, quoting Hamas health officials and its own sources.
An Israeli attack on Rafah will worsen the humanitarian situation. At least 28,064 Palestinians have already been killed in the Strip, according to the latest update by the Hamas-run health ministry, which also noted that more than 67,611 others have been wounded since the outbreak of the war.
Any such attack will lead to serious tension between Israel and Egypt, who reportedly warned Israel against any move in Rafah more than once.
every israeli defense forces plan so far has subtle provisions to exterminate palestinians in the guise of some sort of defense of israel
the freemasonic, luciferian and zionist plan is to kill all the sheep, in all countries, that they can and enslave the others with chips and cbdcs. coming to a country near you, being trial-ran on the oppressed and intentionally impoverished people of palestine and ukraine.
this wouldn’t happen and if it did egypt would be happy, they are sending tanks and other military assets to sinai to egypt-gaza border. the zionists been saying that from the start and they never moved there. like how they said they going to invade lebanon… for 4 months now.
here: “haaretz states that there is actually no set date for an israeli operation against rafah, and that information was leaked to force pressure in negotiations.”
p.s. haaretz is zionist news site.
its 1948 all over. they will displace the population of gaza and then move onto the west bank then southern lebanon. they still wont be happy. the israelis will never know peace until they change their ideology. the mad settlers already pronounce the biblical lands include upto the euphrates.
the father of zionism said clearly that they are settlers and they need the help of colonizers to invade palestine. their “god” is the uk… that is what they believe.
if you aren’t a jew, you know they have no rights to be there and they are just settlers. again the father of zionism said himself… zionism is colonialism and nothing more. they are even funded and supported by other colonizers like the uk and us (not the world).
i submissively accept all genocide in my azz
hamas needs to hang it up and surrender to the idf. they are only delaying the inevitable at this point. israel is prepared to do things the hard way if they have to. if hamas really cares about the palestinians, they will surrender.
like how your mother surrender to idf soldier as hoe? nah they been fighting them and they will win.
idf failed all its goals so far, so su-k this dic+ like your mother bitch. nope, palestinians supporting hamas, they know zionists better than you and your hoe of mother after all that su-king of idf troops cunt.
look at this ape… who are you again to tell the what to do cunt?
i tell you what, you should stfu and write your bs propaganda somewhere else rtded cunt.
as if the palestinian resistance is going to stop even if hamas surrenders. they’re oppressed people being poked at all the time in a forced ghetto, they won’t stop until their situation isn’t hell on earth. you can’t treat people like dirt and have them be kind slaves in return.
the jews are known to juice things
iran must now step up and stop the $atanic beast or wait for its own inevitable destruction as the zionazi demon proudly demonstrates its barbarity and disgust of all things human in the slaughter of innocents in semitic palestine. kill the monster now or pay the price for cowardice.
that british creation is only 76 years old and the world dislike them – just remember how many times the world wanted to sanction zionists and it got blocked by the us at the end.
the us used it veto power 82 times and 34 of them were to protect israel… even now the worst event in their history was done by the people they put in jail and stole from years. israel is spider web…
but iran is too pussy to commit full send. they all do trashtalk and let others do the dirty work but them? coward pussies. allah hates it
genocidal zionist jews