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Israel reportedly deploys extra weapons for assumed Rafah offensive
The Guardian ^ | 4/17/2024 | Bethan McKernan

Posted on 04/17/2024 2:05:16 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

Israel has reportedly deployed extra artillery and armoured personnel carriers to the Gaza Strip periphery, suggesting that the military is preparing for its long-threatened ground offensive on Rafah, the only place of relative safety for at least 1.4 million displaced Palestinian civilians.

Israeli daily Ma’ariv also said on Wednesday that troops had been put on alert and “the governing principle of the operation” had been approved by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) general staff and Yoav Gallant, the defence minister. The IDF declined to comment on the reports.

The IDF confirmed on Tuesday it was buying 40,000 tents to prepare for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians who have sought shelter in Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip, which is only major urban area in the territory that Israeli ground forces have not yet entered.

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1 posted on 04/17/2024 2:05:16 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius


2 posted on 04/17/2024 2:09:44 PM PDT by null and void (Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you, except our side, of course!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
"If they run, they're VC... If they don't run, they're well disciplined VC."


3 posted on 04/17/2024 2:13:31 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: null and void

Amen...


4 posted on 04/17/2024 2:32:58 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
"... Rafah, the only place of relative safety for at least 1.4 million displaced Palestinian "civilians"..."

No liberal agenda there, is there?

5 posted on 04/17/2024 2:51:57 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: null and void

Good one. I referenced that here a few weeks ago. Funny that a Catholic Papal Legate said it. Usually: “Let God sorth them out.”——
“Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own”.
Papal Legate and Cistercian abbot Arnaud Amalric was the military commander of the Crusade in its initial phase and replied to a question of holding back because some good Catholics were in the area who would be killed along with the enemy.

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And
Fiat justitia ruat caelum

(Let justice be done though the heavens fall.)


6 posted on 04/17/2024 3:17:17 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The Guardian is currently the far leftist web site of record.


7 posted on 04/17/2024 3:20:56 PM PDT by TheConservator ( For Libtards, barring Trump from the presidency is worth destroying 235 years the rule of law)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

leave it to the Guardian to portray Israel as somehow doing something wrong or unexpected

and with a very misleading statement right in their leed sentence, too

the socalled civilians are welcome in any of several declared “safe zones” (or they could demand to return to Egypt at any time they wish, just pay for the “ticket” (the Arabs have set up what looks like a travel agency but some would brand an ‘extortion racket’ — at any event it is open for business to all comers)

Israel is not keeping any “civilians” in the war that the Fakestinian Hamas terrorists created .
Not one.


8 posted on 04/17/2024 3:21:28 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: airborne

They better hit Rafah soon, the window is closing fast


9 posted on 04/17/2024 3:23:23 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Israel should not talk about, advertise, or ask permission from Biden to go into Rafah. They should go in first, announce the operation after it has started second, and finish off Hamas. Then talk about it later, mostly to say to everyone who protests thank you for your opinion.


10 posted on 04/17/2024 3:39:23 PM PDT by Widget Jr (9/11 - 11M - 10/7)
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To: Widget Jr

Totally agree.

On a slightly different subject, the longer Israel waits to hit Iran for last Saturday, it becomes more unlikely they’ll do anything about that.
At least that’s MY opinion.


11 posted on 04/17/2024 4:14:47 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Why wouldn’t northern Gaza be safe for actual “civilian” Gazans?

Why wouldn’t civilian Gazans give up Hamass in order to get on with their peaceful lives?


12 posted on 04/17/2024 5:00:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: telescope115

Israel has apparently hit Iranian facilities in Lebanon and Syria in recent days.


13 posted on 04/17/2024 5:02:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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