Israel will push on with its offensive against Hamas, including into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite growing international pressure to stop, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said https://t.co/8lBm4fzBbc pic.twitter.com/XmYmyaIRgz
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 7, 2024
Biden says he’s working on a ceasefire, rofl.
Israel will push on with its offensive against Hamas, including into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite growing international pressure to stop, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.
Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas after its fighters attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and abducting 253, according to Israeli tallies. More than 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza during Israel’s subsequent offensive, Palestinian health authorities estimate, prompting worldwide criticism and condemnation.
“There is international pressure and it’s growing, but particularly when the international pressure rises, we must close ranks, we need to stand together against the attempts to stop the war,” he said.
Wow, did he say that in English?
That is an incredible sentence.
The Jews are definitely closing ranks. Recent Israeli elections showed a massive shift to the right. Americans, even Jew watchers, don’t seem to understand: in Israel, Bibi is the moderate.
Ahmed was displaced from the north of Gaza.
He lost his home, he’s doing all he can for his family to survive, and he has nowhere safe to go.
There are 600,000 children in Rafah just like Ahmed, terrified of what’s next. From displacement and the threat of bombings to… pic.twitter.com/UqiDzHjM3H
— UNICEF (@UNICEF) March 7, 2024