US is 'helping Israel target Hamas leaders' in hopes of limiting invasion of Rafah

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: UK Independent

10 hours ago


The Biden administration is sharing intelligence with Israel to help it target Hamas leadership and conduct other combat operations in the hope of limiting the invasion of Rafah, according toThe Washington Post.

For weeks, Israeli officials have warned of imminent invasion in the southern city Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians fled to escape fighting in the north of Gaza.

On Sunday, the exodus of Palestinians from Gaza’s last refuge accelerated as Israeli forces pushed deeper into Rafah. Israel also pounded the territory’s devastated north, where some Hamas militants have regrouped in areas the military said it had cleared months ago.

Rafah is considered Hamas’ last stronghold. Some 300,000 of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there have fled the city following evacuation orders from Israel, which says it must invade to dismantle Hamas and return scores of hostages taken from Israel in the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-rafah-hamas-gaza-israel-b2543827.html

[Think. Again.]

1. Good...

hamas needs to be decimated from the top down, bottom up, or middle out.

Now we'll have to watch and see if netanyahu continues to murder innocent, non-hamas civilians anyway.

[Beastly Boy]

2. One thing we don't have to wait and see

Hamas will continue to murder innocent non-Hamas civilians, no matter what.

[Think. Again.]

3. That's why I said hamas needs to be decimated.

[Beastly Boy]

6. You said Hamas needs to be decimated. You did't say why.

hamas needs to be decimated from the top down, bottom up, or middle out.

Now we'll have to watch and see if netanyahu continues to murder innocent, non-hamas civilians anyway.

You certainly didn't wonder if Hamas would continue to murder innocent non-hamas civilians anyway, decimated or not.

[Think. Again.]

7. I really can't be expected to...

. ..check with you first to see if my posts cover all the topics you want them to.

[Beastly Boy]

8. Of course not. That would be my job.

No checking with me expected or desired.

[womanofthehills]

11. On social media - we are seeing even more images than usual of burnt suffering toddlers

It's worse than seeing dead babies as the kids are screaming. Israel has the bunker bombs responsible for this.

[guyfromla]

4. SURE!! What could go wrong?

We were SOOO Successful in Iraq and Afghanistan, right?

[AZLD4Candidate]

5. And how do you recommend dealing with Hamas?

[womanofthehills]

12. Not by killing and injuring hundreds of babies every week for over 100 days

and stopping all the food supplies.

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. killing and injuring babies are from numbers provided by the Hamas led Gaza Government.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unicef-says-over-13000-children-killed-gaza-israel-offensive-2024-03-17/

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - The U.N. children's agency said on Sunday over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza in Israel's offensive, opens new tab, adding many kids were suffering from severe malnutrition and did not "even have the energy to cry."

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell did not provide a source for the child fatality figure during an interview with CBS News.

When asked if Russell was referring to the agency's own estimate or was basing the figure on reporting from authorities in Hamas-governed Gaza, a UNICEF spokesperson pointed to a press statement by the U.N. children's agency that attributed the figure to Gaza's health ministry.

Hamas's government surely is to be believed 100%. They are perfect people.

Don't worry though. After the UN was caught using Hamas provided numbers, they revised their statements.

stopping all the food supplies.

Please provide evidence that Israel is "stopping ALL the food supplies." Palestinian militants just attacked the humanitarian pier that the IDF is protecting while the US builds it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/25/gaza-floating-pier/

First shipment was sent five days ago from Cyprus. Israel didn't stop it.

Can we stop with the hyperbole as HRC requested and get some facts and context before saying these things please?

[maxsolomon]

9. We were relatively successful at targeting individuals.

What could go wrong? Using 2000lb bombs to target 1 commander hiding under an apartment building filled with innocents.

Israel may be pissed at Biden now, but the IDF will be happy to use the information and launch more precise strikes.

[JoseBalow]

10. "Ironclad"

[Aussie105]

13. What is the emotional hold Israel has over the US anyway?

Rest of the world shakes its head at what is happening and giving the US the WTF side-eye.

But this war will never stop.

Every Palestinian child who sees what Israel is doing will become a willing HAMAS fighter when they are older.

My mother lived through WW2 in a country overrun by the Germans.
She hated Germans - even ones born well after WW2 ended - for the next 60 years.
Not rational, I know.

[maxsolomon]

15. Is this a serious question? The US supported the founding of the country.

There are over 6 million Jews in America. Thousands of Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, have visited, worked on Kibbutz, have relatives there.

We've been their best ally for their entire existence.

Plus, Jesus.

The rest of the world should shake their heads at Hamas, too. They specifically designed 10/7 to provoke this reaction.