Israel vowed that its forces would target Hamas in Rafah, the southern Gaza city packed with civilians sheltering from the war, while both sides weighed a U.S.-backed proposal to stop the fighting and set more hostages free.
An Israeli military operation in Rafah, an area in the southern Gaza Strip that abuts Egypt, could open a risky new phase of the war.
More than a million Palestinian civilians are crowded into the area after many of them fled their homes in central and northern Gaza.
The Israeli military has urged Palestinians to move southward for their own safety.
Aid workers and Palestinian residents warn that a military offensive in the area would deepen Gaza’s humanitarian crisis, in which much of the strip has been reduced to rubble and 1.7 million people pushed from their homes.
“It won’t be like the north,” said Avi Jager, a military expert with Israel’s Reichman University. Densely packed streets where tanks can’t maneuver would mean any Israeli military operation in Rafah “will be more in the style of raids.”
“It’s hard for me to see how the world would stand by and they’ll just keep pushing farther down, but that is the trajectory,” said Mairav Zonszein, a senior Israel analyst with International Crisis Group, a conflict-resolution think tank. “I think the military is very frustrated with the political echelon and has something to prove and wants to come out with achievements.”
@9JM9SNJProgressive3mos3MO
Israel needs to ceasefire and let the displaced Palestinians back to their homes.
@9JMQ4RW3mos3MO
Ceasefire now, further violence should be prevented by international community, fair and balanced peace talks immediately
@9JM26763mos3MO
I think that israel should stop attacking and killing people, ay least to let the people leave the country until war is over
@9JM4CDRRepublican3mos3MO
I am against the current policy Israel is doing on the ppor palestanians.
@9JM49QC3mos3MO
My opinion on the news topic is that Israel can target a million refugees which I don't think its right because if they do, then they might get attacked and people could lose their homes in which they might not survive.
@9JM3WK53mos3MO
It's hard to see innocent people get hurt by political issues
@9JM3XWY3mos3MO
It's bad that Israel can continue to kill innocent people.
@9JMD9863mos3MO
Because this in not just effecting a couple of people in one country. This is something that is a life or death situation.
Innocent lives, and lives in general, should never be killed out of mal-intent or anger. especially people that have not directly hurt you. Innocent people are innocent for a reason, they have not done anything. It's their governments. How would Americans feel if we were being bombed for something our government did? Some of us would stand behind the govt. but others would say "I don't support this why am I getting punished?"
@9JM32NWRepublican3mos3MO
peoples lives are more important
@9JM2M3HPeace and Freedom3mos3MO
My opinion is that something needs to be done before innocent lives are ended.
@9JM6BV53mos3MO
Palestine is currently experiencing an ongoing genocide from Israel with the help of America as a global superpower to fund their killings
@9JM3DZJRepublican 3mos3MO
To stand with Palestine you have to be ok with killing innocent jews babies, and be ok with the holocaust, and ok with anti jewish tendency's
@9JLXZCD3mos3MO
We should work to end the Isreali-Pakistan conflict.
@9JLYRJ43mos3MO
It is disgusting what Israel is doing to Gaza, and it breaks my heart. They are precisely doing everything that is in line with genocide.
@9JM24NB 3mos3MO
The US should not fund Israel and should send aid such as medical supplies and food to Gaza. Also because we provided weapons for the destruction of Gaza in order to pay reparations for that we should take in Gazan refugees. We should also support Lebanon militarily as they are being attacked by Israel despite not being involved in the conflict. Also the training programs between the US police and IDF should be ceased. US manufacturers should also not be allowed to ship Israel any products. Israel should be tried for the war crimes of attacking hospitals and using white phosphorous. Israel… Read more
@9JLX5JT3mos3MO
I think that a lot are fake and we need the real information not just what they want to share
@9JLVRKK3mos3MO
I think that its horrible, and those people need to be helped.
Palestine Becomes its own sovereign nation and Israel ceases to exist.
@E1ectionFalconSocialist3mos3MO
To stand with palestine you only have to be a human.
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