The Israeli military issued an “urgent warning” to evacuate parts of Rafah on Saturday, forcing tens of thousands out of the area and signaling the next phase of its military campaign against Hamas. NBC News reports: https://flip.it/yB5nQ3 #News#WorldNews#IsraelHamasWar#Israel#Palestine
UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution Supporting Palestinian Statehood. The measure declares that Palestinians qualify for full-member status, a largely symbolic move that reflects the growing isolation of IL.
How does the Israeli AMB to the UN react:
"Gilad Erdan used a paper shredder to shred the UN charter on the podium of the UN general assembly ahead of a vote that will give new privileges to the Palestinians at the UN."
-B Ravid
GAZA IS HELL ON EARTH: famine, lack of water & fuel, untreated injuries, disease, #domicide..
Rafah has a spiraling HC crisis.
Israel’s MIL ops. have overwhelmed hospitals -already struggling to treat patients suffering from malnutrition & disease.
Bodies lay where they fell, in the “red zone” -few ambulances available could not reach bc of Israeli bombardment. Border crossings remained closed Thurs, stranding critically ill patients-.
"IL security CAB approved last night the "expansion of the area of operation" of the IDF in Rafah. 2 sources: this is a "measured expansion" that doesn't cross Pres Biden's red line. 3rd source: approved expansion incl. actions that could be interpreted by the US as crossing Biden's red line The 3 sources: CAB also instructed the Israeli negotiations to continue efforts to reach a hostage deal & try to formulate a new initiative that'd lead to a breakthrough."
-B Ravid #IsraelHamasWar
Israeli cab. decision comes as concern grows in the Biden admin re deteriorating humanitarian situation in Rafah since IL took control of the PA side of the Rafah crossing earlier this week. IL didn't coord.-capturing of the crossing well enough with the Egyptians who got "extremely upset" *refused to send aid trucks, incl. fuel trucks, thru: Kerem Shalom crossing b/w IL & Gaza. Biden admin: pressing the Israelis to reopen-.
Israeli #warcrimes, Palestinians abused in detention💔:
MIL base -now doubles as a detention center in IL’s Negev desert: Rows of men in gray tracksuits seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire -blindfolded -heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights.
Snr security official lamented in a prv. meeting: "The Americans want us to create perfect living conditions, even expecting us to put chocolate on their pillows." IL's insistence on full steam ahead in Rafah could spell a weapons embargo from the W -limiting precision munitions might lead to increased civilian casualties, contrary to US intentions -would force: IDF to use a larger stockpile of less precise bombs & missiles -. #IsraelHamasWarhttps://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1lzoqcfr
It's impossible for Pres Biden to please the Zionists & pro- #Palestinians. Accusing those who care about the fate of the Palestinian ppl by calling them pro-Hamas, is disingenuous, inflammatory & harmful:
"Dem mega-donor Haim Saban wrote an email to Biden's aides Steve Ricchetti & Anita Dunn about Biden's decision to put on hold a weapons shipment to Israel: "Let's not forget there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters who care about Hamas." -B Ravid
"The Biden admin has said a major invasion would be a red line -noting that it could result in more civilian deaths. Aid groups -already having difficulty distributing much needed aid to the >1.4M ppl -current fighting: killed dozens of people in the last 24 hrs -more robust IDF presence now. 2 brigades, one’s a specialist in tunnels & the other one were the perpetrators of the WCK incident. Those are the 2 brigades operating now & in South Rafa."
Netanyahu's alliance with #TFG was known, but the fact that he did the IL PM's bidding, is why he'd prefer TFG to Biden in Nov:
"Back in the day Netanyahu asked Trump to support his request, sent via then-Mossad director Y Cohen, to Qatar, to get more money to Hamas. Trump agreed. Billions flowed. Trump was 100% all in.
#Netanyahu, under the illusion he's a Jewish Churchill in a bunker fighting Hitler, reposts his Armageddon "WE WILL STAND ALONE." 5/5/24 speech
-N Tarnopolsky
With pressure from Jewish & pro-Israel donors & Republicans, the WH is already walking back their plans to curtail arms to Israel💔:
"DOD spox says right now the Pentagon assesses that Israel's campaign in Gaza is "a limited operation... meant to secure that particular area."
-L Seligman
"Weapons shipments are still going to Israel. They're still getting that the vast, vast majority of everything that they need to defend themselves," Kirby.
-J Jacobs
I'm livid, I understand #MAGAMike's motive, but Min. Ldr McConnell shouldn't question Pres Biden as he finally limits arms to IL bc of the famine in Gaza & #domicide, meaning, that the Palestinians have nowhere safe to go: their homes, bus'... destroyed💔. It should be bc of credible #warcrimes, #IHL... The #ICC is considering issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu & other top IL officials for alleged war crimes, incl. genocide, incitement to genocide, & the crime of apartheid123.
"Pres Biden tells Erin Burnett that if Israel invades the city of Rafah, the US will stop supplying it with artillery shells, bombs for fighter jets & other offensive weapons."
-Barak Ravid
Thankfully, Pres Biden disregarded Speaker Johnson & Min. Leader McConnell's letter today, expressing alarm about the decision to pause a weapons shipment to Israel and ask for clarification by the end of the week.