Israel’s initial assault on the Rafah border crossing has successfully given the IDF “operational control” of the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Israel is signaling that this will be the jumping-off point for the main thrust into the city. The border operation resulted in the killing […]
It’s on like Donkey Kong. Israel apparently didn’t think much of the latest ceasefire deal (more of a surrender deal) that Hamas was supposedly considering. The Associated Press is reporting that the IDF has moved in and seized control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. The supposed deal that was in the works had […]
A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. Israeli troops rolled into Rafah Tuesday in what authorities said was a limited operation to eliminate the Hamas terror infrastructure in the eastern section of the […]
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli tanks seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday as Israel brushed off urgent warnings from close allies and moved into the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remained on a knife’s edge. The foray came after hours of whiplash in the Israel–Hamas war, with the militant […]
Suuuuure looks like the end has come to Israeli patience. After allowing Hamas to manipulate talks for the last several months, negotiations collapsed over the weekend. US media reports put the onus on Benjamin Netanyahu for asserting — as he has all along — that he would not allow Hamas to remain in Gaza regardless […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army on Monday ordered tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza‘s southern city of Rafah to start evacuating from the area, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion there could be imminent. The announcement complicates last-ditch efforts by international mediators, including the director of the CIA, to broker a cease-fire. The […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the 7-month-long war. Netanyahu said Israel would enter Rafah to destroy Hamas’ battalions there “with or without a deal.” Israel and Hamas are […]
With apologies to Michael Buffer, the boss fight against Hamas is apparently imminent, despite the entire Biden Administration’s attempt to stop it and throw the towel in from the corner to save Hamas from annihilation. Since the October 7th massacre carried out all over Southern Israel by Iranian-backed Hamas Nazis, the emergency war cabinet that […]
Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip killed at least five people. More than half of the territory’s population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah, where Israel has conducted near-daily raids as it prepares for an offensive in the city. In central Gaza, four […]
The signs have emerged for weeks. Israel called up two new combat brigades, have re-cleared key points in central and northern Gaza, and had even partnered with Egypt on building refugee camps near Khan Younis. After the collapse of Joe Biden’s “Don’t” doctrine in Iran and the refusal of Hamas to negotiate in anything approaching […]
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