Rafah offensive: Israel seeks to confront Hamas’s last brigades, control border tunnels
we continue to see Israel carry out air
strikes in the Rafa in the the Rafa area
um and as you know there’s over a
million gazin there um that are trying
to shelter uh and and seek some kind of
safety from the combat there’s a lot
less active combat in the Gaza Strip
right now but Israel still believes that
it needs to go into uh Rafa uh and you
know confront hamas’s last four brigades
there it’s talked about a lot less in
the media especially here on broadcast
uh news but one of the most important
things about Israel going in is not only
fighting Hamas and possibly finding the
hostages but there’s a whole Corridor On
the Border there where Israel wants to
get control of many tunnels uh that it
believes was the main gateway for the
arms and the materials that allowed
Hamas to continue to to build up its uh
its uh capabilities to the extraordinary
extent that it did despite Israel’s um
blockade for over a
decade so Israel wants to go there uh
and it appears that Israel is getting
ready uh they’ve called up two brigades
and we we expect that in the next couple
weeks we will begin to see Israel’s
first part of the plan which is to try
to evacuate over a million gazin and
move them into
uh displaced person’s camps that they
want to set up somewhere in Northern ga
uh in in central Gaza so we’ll have to
see uh how that plan works uh if people
move up how long it takes uh it’s still
a big question mark If Israel can
actually effectively move a huge
civilian population uh further north uh
and if they can be adequately cared for
in these displaced camps that is with
food and electricity and water it’s a
plan that Israel continues to talk about
with the United States um and you know
only with the effective evacuation of
the civilians um will I think Israel
move forward on a major military
campaign having said that it’s certain
that there’s going to be tens of
thousands of civilians left there even
if the majority leave um and again it’s
going to be you know by all estimates um
you know know it’ll be a very deadly uh
it’s expected operation um because it’s
a densely populated area and it’s uh for
Hamas it’s a it is the perfect scenario
uh to hide and and shelter uh and and
keep some of its leaders safe deep
underground likely with some of the
hostages
Israel continues to carry out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from fighting elsewhere, vowing to expand its ground offensive to the city. “Israel still believes it needs to go into Rafah and confront Hamas’s last four brigades there,” ABC Correspondent Jordana Miller told FRANCE 24. Israel also seeks to control a corridor with many tunnels located on the border with Egypt which it believes is used by Hamas to acquire weapons, Miller said.
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31 comments
Not a single one of those countries or organizations whining about Israel's handling of the war Hamas started volunteered to send their own children to fight against Hamas terrorists. It's always easy to be a critic.
Free Rafah from Hamas terrorist group
War refugees fleeing for the hundredth time is called civilians evacuation to Displaced persons camps?
And France24 continues to believe this nonsense. Netanyahu has said there are 4, 5, 6 brigades left, that it has taken out 18, 19, 20, depending on the day. Lies, all of that. One Israeli analyst told Channel 13 yesterday the Hamas force is 5 times bigger than thought before.
Horrific. These poor people.
Jews should go back to europe
Are you sure they are done with the other brigades?
The genocide owners, US,UK, Germany has given their agent(Israel) greenlight to slaughter babies and pregnant women in rafah and tomorrow they will lecture on human rights what hypocrisy and double standards
Genocidal, plain and simple, and then you will play victim
Last brigade?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
I guess Biden (or whoever is in charge) told Makron to open his As.. again and stop the pro palestinian BS. Now France 24 is in full zionist PR.
Her face when she does the Zionist PR is a poem. She know that she is BSing but she had to do her job.
Hamas is not an army but Izreal calls them battalion or the guest call them brigade
It's was an empty area, and the Idf asked helpless peoples to move there and promised that it was safe. But out of the blue, suddenly, there are Hamas fighters there. She should say that in her commentary
💜🇮🇱 💜
This journalis take hard to say the truth and wanted to conceal Israel crime😂
It seams rafah is only part not flatend yet
Narcissism is a revaging disease. A reporter for a german channel said literally "the palistinians are still sticking into Rafah". I imagine the hell inside those people to think and talk in such ways and some how it feels good that at least whilst taking other people lives their souls inside are collapsing and they never get internal rest and yes the horror they are inflicting on others is visible in their own criminal faces
There never was such P state; the Romans changed the name of Israel to Palestina (with an 'a' at the end), but in reality, it was always the Land of Israel.
I haven't seen them show one tunnel yet
Just a detail of the human catastrophe this whole Middle East history is bringing along for us as humans on this planet in 2024: Hamas, the extremist militia was founded in 1987 ( 40 years after the state of Israel was started) – as a result of – at the time already 40 years of – deadly displacement of Palestinians in Palestine. Hamas or any future extremist militia are a > reaction, a motivation. What does any sane mind think how many more extremist militias the future will have after the current ongoing mass slaughter of humans in Gaza and the West Bank. You can not make peace on this planet using war. Military does not solve human or even political problems, as everybody knows. Is humanity – us – so degenerated in the 21st century that numerous 'leaders' have to give us such a portrait of incapability as humans on this planet in 2024 with their current statements, rules and laws, and refusal to face reality in a constructive manner? And: You can not ''defeat'' a motivation** – like Hamas – by fuelling it.That is a blunt fact. Do those ''leaders'' not want to learn and end us in a third world war? Let's hear it.
Hamas is one of the many results of the deadly displacement of Palestinians in Palestine, which began in the 1940s. Hamas was found in reaction to this – in 1987: that's 40 years later. Those extremist militias are 'Motivations'. After the current reoccurrence of mass slaughter of Palestinian people, we should guess this Motivation is now bigger than it ever was before. – You don't defeat a motivation by fuelling it. Tragic fact.
They need to forget Iran and focus on the real task in Rafah.
One million gazans… of which 900 thousand are hamaz supporters
How many aid workers, children, babe in arms, women and old peoples are fighting in this "last brigade" of the Hamas ?
They knew about the operation in Rafah. No one should be prevented from becoming a martyr. It's a religious act.
how many times these people commit ethnic cleansing in the last 6 month ? first they displace millions to south, now they are levelling south and displacing to the north ? what is wrong with these pepole
one of the evil and most cruel reporter
War is like that
Who said that there's the last Brigade? Your father?
Israel has been warning for weeks now that they will be going into Rafah, Gazans need to start listening