Posted on 05/12/2024 4:20:30 AM PDT by Libloather
Biden administration officials are said to be offering Israel exact locations of Hamas leaders in a bid to stop the IDF invading the Gazan city of Rafah.
The president has reportedly offered highly-classified information that also includes the locations of Hamas' secret tunnels to try and stave-off what he fears could be a humanitarian catastrophe.
The detailed and sensitive talks serve to illustrate the stakes facing Israel and the U.S. Rafah is the last city in Gaza that has not been bombed by Israel.
According to the Washington Post, the U.S. is also proposing to assist in the construction of thousands of shelters to create tent cities and help with the setting up of delivery systems for vital supplies like food, water, and medicine.
This support will help ensure that 1.3 Palestinians that fled and were already evacuated from other parts of Gaza under Israeli orders and now sheltering in Rafah have access to livable conditions, rather than being exposed to further hardship.
Israel has promised an invasion using 'extreme force' - something the Biden administration is particularly concerned about, particularly given the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. The current goal is to essentially prevent unnecessary destruction and minimize harm to civilians.
Israeli says it must go into Rafah in order to complete the job of wiping out Hamas.
But the job is easier said than done as destroying city's extensive underground tunnel network where many Hamas fighters and leaders are based, would endanger the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
'We have serious concerns about how Israel has prosecuted this campaign, and that could all come to a head in Rafah,' a senior administration official said.
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Thanks, Joe, for withholding this info until now.
This information is either untrue; or if true, it should never have been leaked.
So Trump had a rally yesterday; eh?
β So, when it comes to Gaza and Hamas, who do you trust more, the CIA or Mossad?β
The only thing the CIA does well, or can be trusted to do, is target populist Americans.
Actually, responsibility for Gaza and Hamas falls first to military Intelligence, and Shin Bet (AKA Shabak, or ISA).
Intelligence Directorate Chief Haliva has already resigned, and IDF Chief publicly accepted blame today.
Mossad is foreign operations.
Thx for that.
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