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After U.S. Pressure, IDF Leaves Southern Gaza; Hamas Declares Victory
Joel B. Pollak 7 Apr 2024
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that it had withdrawn its forces from southern Gaza, following a demand from U.S. President Joe Biden last week for an “immediate ceasefire.” Hamas declared victory on the news.
The decision, coming on the day Israelis marked six months since the October 7 attack, came as a surprise, and as Israeli negotiators flew to Cairo for hostage negotiations. Hamas has demanded a ceasefire before any new deal.
The IDF will leave one brigade in Gaza, whose role will be to allow Israeli troops access to return as necessary. It will also carry out targeted operations, such as the successful raid at Shifa Hospital last month.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
The IDF on Sunday announced that it had concluded the active invasion stage of the war for now while leaving open the possibility of a future new invasion of Rafah in deep southern Gaza.
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Although a top IDF official said that this change had nothing to do with US pressure, the timing was unmistakable in coming right after the IDF’s disastrous mistaken killing of seven humanitarian aid workers last week.
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Hamas immediately declared the IDF withdrawal, even partial, a victory for sticking to its position of demanding IDF withdrawals, including of troops in northern Gaza.
As Breitbart News reported, Biden demanded an “immediate ceasefire” in response to the accidental killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers last Tuesday, when an IDF drone team mistook them for Hamas terrorists.
The incident was Hamas’s greatest success in the war: there is evidence that the terrorists deliberately confused the IDF about the vehicles. Hamas uses human shields and civilian casualties as part of its asymmetric war strategy.
more
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/07/after-u-s-pressure-idf-leaves-southern-gaza-hamas-declares-victory/
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Shame on Netanyahu if he in fact let Biden bully him into submission.
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After U.S. Pressure, IDF Leaves Southern Gaza; Hamas Declares Victory
Joel B. Pollak 7 Apr 2024
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that it had withdrawn its forces from southern Gaza, following a demand from U.S. President Joe Biden last week for an “immediate ceasefire.” Hamas declared victory on the news.
The decision, coming on the day Israelis marked six months since the October 7 attack, came as a surprise, and as Israeli negotiators flew to Cairo for hostage negotiations. Hamas has demanded a ceasefire before any new deal.
The IDF will leave one brigade in Gaza, whose role will be to allow Israeli troops access to return as necessary. It will also carry out targeted operations, such as the successful raid at Shifa Hospital last month.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
The IDF on Sunday announced that it had concluded the active invasion stage of the war for now while leaving open the possibility of a future new invasion of Rafah in deep southern Gaza.
…
Although a top IDF official said that this change had nothing to do with US pressure, the timing was unmistakable in coming right after the IDF’s disastrous mistaken killing of seven humanitarian aid workers last week.
…
Hamas immediately declared the IDF withdrawal, even partial, a victory for sticking to its position of demanding IDF withdrawals, including of troops in northern Gaza.
As Breitbart News reported, Biden demanded an “immediate ceasefire” in response to the accidental killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers last Tuesday, when an IDF drone team mistook them for Hamas terrorists.
The incident was Hamas’s greatest success in the war: there is evidence that the terrorists deliberately confused the IDF about the vehicles. Hamas uses human shields and civilian casualties as part of its asymmetric war strategy.
more
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/07/after-u-s-pressure-idf-leaves-southern-gaza-hamas-declares-victory/
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Inside President Biden’s pointed phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/06/politics/biden-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war-phone-call-details/index.html
President Joe Biden ticked through several things that he needed to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do immediately: open up the Erez crossing into northern Gaza and the port of Ashdod in southern Israel for humanitarian aid; significantly ramp up the supplies getting in through Kerem Shalom.
A person familiar with the Thursday call paraphrased Netanyahu as responding: “Joe, we’re gonna do it.”
But Biden wasn’t finished. The prime minister must announce the moves that evening, the president insisted.
By Thursday night, the Israeli security cabinet had approved those three measures to increase humanitarian aid entering the besieged enclave.
The relatively brief phone call between the two leaders this week marked the first time since Hamas’ attack on Israel in October that Biden threatened Netanyahu with serious consequences if Israel did not change the way it was waging its war in Gaza. Biden, who has remained steadfast in his support of Israel’s right to defend itself — even amid growing political backlash at home — warned the prime minister that if conditions did not rapidly improve for civilians in the strip, he would reconsider how the US was backing Israel in the conflict.
The prime minister’s office declined to comment on the exchange. The White House declined to comment for this story.
EXCERPT
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I keep asking this question, but nobody seems to know the answer: Is Hamas still launching missiles at Israeli civilians?
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I keep asking this question, but nobody seems to know the answer: Is Hamas still launching missiles at Israeli civilians?
@Cyber Liberty
Did you Google it?
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I wouldn't put much faith in a one-off strategic 'news' article. Israel could easily have released this to take momentum away from the growing Democrat antisemitic fascists in America. Israel is not going to allow Hamas back in Gaza. That would be a true 'victory' for Hamas, and Israel would never live it down.
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@Cyber Liberty
Did you Google it?
Yes, and nobody is giving me an answer. Most stories go on and on about Israelis slaughtering innocent Gazans.
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Shame on Netanyahu if he in fact let Biden bully him into submission.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/04/08/israel-is-risking-losing-this-war-by-caring-what-people-who-hate-it-think-n2637467
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Israel Denies that Troop Withdrawals Mean Giving Up on Destroying Hamas
The Israeli government denied Monday that the withdrawal of ground forces from southern Gaza on Sunday meant that it was giving up on its plan to attack Hamas in the city of Rafah and destroy the last four terrorist battalions.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/08/israel-denies-that-troop-withdrawals-mean-giving-up-on-destroying-hamas/
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I keep asking this question, but nobody seems to know the answer: Is Hamas still launching missiles at Israeli civilians?
Alan Shatter
@Alan__Shatter
Over 24 hrs ago Israel withdrew most of its forces from Gaza.This morning Hamas fired a missile from Khan Younis at the Israeli town of Re’im which fortunately caused no casualties. Hamas’s primary interest is to restore its brutal rule in Gaza & reignite conflict not end the war
6:43 AM · Apr 8, 2024
COGAT
@cogatonline
Once again, Hamas launched rockets from a humanitarian area in western Khan Yunis, next to an aid distribution center and shelters.
Another example of Hamas' calculated manipulation of civilian infrastructure, placing assets within civilians, using them as human shields.
2:38 AM · Apr 8, 2024
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKn4IXdWIAEQKMN?format=jpg&name=small)
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And American Jews will still vote 70/30 for Biden. **nononono*
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Alan Shatter
@Alan__Shatter
Over 24 hrs ago Israel withdrew most of its forces from Gaza.This morning Hamas fired a missile from Khan Younis at the Israeli town of Re’im which fortunately caused no casualties. Hamas’s primary interest is to restore its brutal rule in Gaza & reignite conflict not end the war
6:43 AM · Apr 8, 2024
COGAT
@cogatonline
Once again, Hamas launched rockets from a humanitarian area in western Khan Yunis, next to an aid distribution center and shelters.
Another example of Hamas' calculated manipulation of civilian infrastructure, placing assets within civilians, using them as human shields.
2:38 AM · Apr 8, 2024
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GKn4IXdWIAEQKMN?format=jpg&name=small)
Is any right minded person surprised? I dare say not.