Amid the ongoing attack on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become more dangerous than before.
He believes that given international pressure, Israel has only a month left to complete its operation in Rafah.
Let us tell you that through the Rafah operation, Israel wants to eliminate the remaining operative battalions of Hamas in Gaza. Now he has fixed the time for this.
According to Channel 12 report, Prime Minister Netanyahu recently ordered military officers involved in the war, saying that the ongoing operation in Gaza’s southernmost city must be completed before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Let us tell you that this year Ramadan is going to start from March 10.
During discussions on the Rafah operation, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi told Netanyahu that the Israel Defense Forces were ready for the operation, but the government first needed to decide what it wanted to do. Displaced Gazans are taking shelter there.
44 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza
At least 44 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip late Friday night. The attacks came hours after the Israeli Prime Minister asked the army to prepare a plan to evacuate thousands of people from southern Gaza City before a ground attack.
Benjamin Netanyahu gave neither details nor timing of this plan, but the announcement caused panic. More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled to Rafah after Israel repeatedly issued orders to evacuate the area.
The ground attacks were planned during the ongoing tension between Netanyahu and the Biden administration. US officials say that launching a ground attack in Rafah without making any plans for the people living there would cause huge casualties. In recent weeks, people said they had taken shelter in Rafah after ground attacks began on the city of Khan Yunis, despite daily Israeli airstrikes.
attacks on homes
Three air strikes on homes in the Rafah region on Friday night killed 44 people, including 10 children, the youngest of whom was three months old, according to a health service official. Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said Israeli forces targeted Nasser Hospital, the area’s largest, in a ground attack in Khan Yunis, killing at least one person and wounding several others.
missile attack on damascus area also
Israel launched a missile attack targeting the western areas of the Syrian capital, Damascus, after midnight. Eyewitnesses and local media gave this information in the early hours of Saturday. The pro-government Al-Watan news outlet said loud explosions were heard in the western countryside of Damascus, saying it was an Israeli attack. The explosions were also heard on the outskirts of the Dimas area, west of Damascus, as well as in the Mashrou Dummar neighborhood, according to witnesses and pro-government media outlets. The Syrian Defense Ministry said the attack was launched from over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The air defense system had intercepted some of the missiles. The attack has caused material damage. This was the second attack in less than 24 hours.