‘The US has been trying to urge Netanyahu to exercise caution’ • FRANCE 24 English

Has really been trying to urge Netanyahu to exercise caution um and saying there very bluntly the bluntest language we’ve seen yet feels like we’ve we’ve said that a few times but those statements from Joe Biden and from a White House spokesman also a state department spokesman saying that they are extremely

Concerned basically about any ground offensive major military incursion by the Israeli Armed Forces into Rafa that border City to which you know well over a million Palestinians have fled and are now trying to eek out an existence there um so Benjamin netanyahu’s office put out this statement saying that they he’s

Asking the Israeli armed forces and security establishment to draw up this combined plan for a military offensive but also an evacuation of civilians from the area a nod to the Americans but nonetheless signaling their intent to push on uh with this offensive they say they want to OU Hamas eliminate Hamas

Entirely and that there are four battalions still remaining in Rafa which they want to Target so what would that mean exactly an is an Israeli government spokesman has been saying just it recently that uh the evacuation of civilians could be to other open areas in the Gaza Strip into basically massive

Tented camp areas I mean such an operation would take a huge huge amount of organization these are people who’ve already been displaced several times for some of them lots of injured people in a dire humanitarian Condition it’s difficult to see how this could Shape Up and how much time it could take

“The US has been trying to urge Netanyahu to exercise caution”, said Catherine Norris Trent, FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Jerusalem, Israel. “They are extremely worried about any ground offensive by the Israeli armed forces into Rafah, that border city into which well over a million Palestinians have fled and are now trying to eke out an existance there”, she added. 

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27 comments

  4. No asks Qatar to put pressure on hamas, but they want the USA to put pressure on Israel. I remember when IDF was bombing gaza in May 2021, and Biden insisted Israel stop – Netanyahu said there better not be a next time! This is the next time, Biden doesn't have any leverage in this one – watch and wait!

  6. Hamas is almost gone. UAE are constructing desalination plants in Gaza and Egypt has approved IDF fortification of the Philadelphia corridor. All this here is western properganda. Things are moving well ahead of schedule.

  7. I'm sure that hope in this context either wasn't worded any better than by Lincoln once: "when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature"

  8. This weekend the US is wholly focused on the Super Bowl, and less aware of any world events than usual. Expect Israel to go big on military action this weekend.

  13. US and the west are just gaslighting. One more week. Blinkin leaves saying don't attack Rafah, and that's exactly what they do. Biden just acts upset

  14. They "tried" to urge Netanyahu to exercise caution – Trying is not doing! And then, they hand him bombs, shells, Apache helicopters, 17B dollars in foreign aid and still talk about 40 beheaded babies! That's rich!

  16. I don't see how Israel has any other realistic options. They have had decades of constant murders and attacks.

  17. Over 30 thousand killed among which 70 percent are children and women. Lakhs displaced and amputed. Every home, church mosque and hospital destroyed. Humanitarian aid blocked. But you are trying to request Netanyahu to excercise caution. Hypocrisy

  18. Lets see what hypocrite USA is doing. Three amrican soldiers died in Jordan-iraq are. The avenge them, American are still launching attacks in iraq and yemen. Now 1300 civilian mostly women and children were killed on 7th october and americans wants nataenyahu to just sit back and relax?
    I am asking this french government outlet France24 what would be your reaction if some terrorist orgamization kills 1300 french citizen? will you sit back and relax?

  21. No point stopping because Sinwar and his senior team are in Rafah – to leave them alive is to invite another Oct 7 – Hamas told people to go to Rafah, IDF told people to go to Al Marwasi southwestern cornee next to sea. Hamas wants humannshields – perhaps asks why people insist on going thwre when IDF has dropped leaflets

  23. This is propaganda. The USA is fully funding the genocide of the Palestinians. To suggest that Biden administration is asking Israel to go easy is nothing less than a distraction from the truth.

  26. USA stop your hypocrisy…you are supplying support….bombs, arms, money, diplomatic support…..america stance on supplying israel shows no morality

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