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Israel is drawing closer to defeating Hamas. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is laying out terms for what a post-war Gaza must look like.
From CBN. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argues that the Israeli Defense Forces are destroying Hamas’ ability to strike as an army. But many of the terrorists have escaped, and he acknowledges the IDF will have to keep chasing them down all over Gaza.
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As Netanyahu puts it, “We are nearing the end of the elimination phase of Hamas’s terrorist army. There will be a continuation of hitting its remnants.” …
Had to Evacuate Six Times
The IDF has destroyed much of Khan Younis, a huge suburb of Rafah, in earlier pitched battles to wipe Hamas out there. But many of the surviving terrorists have recently fled from Rafah to Khan Younis. So the IDF is having to order the civilians there — many who are already evacuees from other areas – to evacuate once again so they don’t get mowed down in the renewed fighting.
One bedraggled and angry woman said as she fled with her family, “Here we are going to look for a place to evacuate to. I’ve been displaced six times from Rafah.”
It appears the Biden administration continues to demand how the Israelis should conduct this war. With so much of Gaza bombed and in ruins, it’s thought many Palestinians living there might well be better off moving elsewhere. But the U.S. is telling Israel it must eventually let all Gazans settle back permanently in Gaza. …
What the Biden Administration Finds Unacceptable
And the Biden administration is saying the Israelis must make sure after the war there is an Arab-led civilian government set up in Gaza. Some in the Jewish nation think it can’t really be safe from Gaza unless there’s some form of Israeli occupation to make sure terrorists can’t rise to power again there.
But U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken insists anything less than Arabs back in charge is one of three things unacceptable to the Biden administration. …
War Between Israel and Hezbollah
Blinken also addressed the possibility of war between Israel and Hezbollah saying, “On the one hand, no one wants a war. On the other hand, you have forces, momentum that may be leading in that direction, in which we are determined to try to arrest.
Blinken noted about the thousands of Israeli evacuees, “You have 60,000 or so Israelis out of their homes in northern Israel. Israel has essentially lost sovereignty in that part of the country because people don’t feel safe going to their homes.” …
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(Excerpt from CBN. Photo Credit: President.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67754957)