2024-04-22 18:00:00
Analysis: “The United States strongly opposes all-out war with Iran, refrains from all-out war, and risks war with Hamas. » Analysis In the event of a land war, additional losses among the inhabitants of Pal are inevitable. 19 residents of Rafah died in this military airstrike
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo) announced on the 21st: “We will exert military pressure on Hamas in the coming days to rescue the hostages held by the Palestinian armed group Hamas.” This can be interpreted as a statement emphasizing the intention to deploy ground troops to Rafah, a key town in the southern Gaza Strip, despite strong deterrence from the international community, including the United States, concerned regarding casualties. massive losses due to the attack. concentration of refugees.
There is an analysis that the Netanyahu regime will refrain from escalating the war with its “old enemy” Iran due to strong opposition from the United States, and will instead risk life and death in the war once morest Hamas, which is considered a relatively easy war. opponent. Prime Minister Netanyahu, pushed to the brink by the prolongation of the war and the delay in rescuing the hostages, has no choice but to intensify the Hamas offensive to appease the discontent of the far right , its support base, and expand its political power. life.
It seems inevitable that more Palestinian civilians will be sacrificed in this process. This is why a British economist has diagnosed that only the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are affected by the conflict between Israel and Iran.
● Netanyahu “forces ground combat in Rafah”
Military airstrike on Rafah before ground war On the 21st, residents of Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, mourned the loss of their families due to an Israeli airstrike. The Hamas Health Ministry in Gaza said the death toll in the war between Israel and Hamas exceeded 34,000. Rapha = Shinhwa Newsis
In an address to the nation on Passover, which commemorates the exodus of the ancient Jewish people from Egypt, Prime Minister Netanyahu said: “Hamas has rejected our offer to release all the hostages,” and added: “We are going to face a painful problem.” hard blow for Hamas in a few days. » “This is the only way to save the hostages,” he said.
He also said: “Hamas is causing difficulties for the people and is not letting them go. » The situation in the past, when the Egyptian ruler Pharaoh imprisoned Jewish slaves and did not release them, is compared to the current detention of hostages by Hamas. This can be interpreted as a move to ensure the legitimacy of Rafa’s ground war.
The same day, local media outlet Times of Israel reported that IDF Chief of Staff Herzy Halevi approved the Southern Command’s new combat plan. The Israeli army shows its willingness to carry out a cleansing operation in this area, since at least four Hamas brigades and their leaders are established in the Rafah region.
For Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Rafah ground battle is seen as a way to boost his domestic popularity while complying with the demands of the United States, which strongly opposes all-out war with Iran. On the 18th, the Arab media Al-Arab Al-Jadeed reported that the United States expressed its intention to accept the Rafah military operation on the condition that it does not launch an attack on Iran.
The New York Times (NYT) also reported on the 22nd that the Israeli attack on Iran on the 19th was scaled back from the original plan. Initially, it was planned to strike areas near Tehran, the capital of Iran, but due to the deterrence measures of the United States, Great Britain and Germany, it was limited to one air strike from unmanned aerial vehicle (drone).
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s approval rating has also increased recently. According to an opinion poll conducted on the 20th by local media Channel 13, if general elections were held immediately, the far-right coalition led by Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to win 51 seats out of 120. There was an increase in 10 seats compared to the November survey last year (41 seats).
● Baby born from his mother’s womb and died in a bombing
Baby saved by cesarean… A premature baby born by emergency cesarean to Sabrin al-Saqani, a refugee who died during the Israeli airstrike on Rafah, the southernmost town of the Palestinian Gaza Strip, lies in a hospital incubator on the 21st, with his deceased mother. The band on the chest reads “Baby of Martyr Sakani”. Rapha = AP Newsis
The humanitarian crisis for the residents of Rafah is reaching its peak. Indeed, Israel is strengthening its air strikes every day before the start of the ground war.
Sabrin Al Sakhani, a resident of Rafah who was 30 weeks pregnant, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the 20th. Emergency teams quickly transported her body to a nearby hospital and performed an emergency cesarean section . The baby girl in her mother’s womb was born small, weighing 1.4 kg, and is currently in a hospital incubator. The baby was named Sabrine Judas in honor of her deceased mother.
A total of 19 people, including Sakani’s husband and their four-year-old eldest daughter, were killed in the airstrike that day. Local doctor Mohammad Salameh lamented to the Associated Press: “The biggest tragedy is that although this baby survived, he lost both of his parents. »
According to Hamas health authorities in Gaza, more than 34,000 people have died in Gaza alone in the six months since the war began in October last year. Among them, two thirds are women and children.
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