{"id":281604,"date":"2024-02-11T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=281604"},"modified":"2024-02-12T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T09:37:38","slug":"a-move-on-rafah-might-be-the-spark-that-ignites-a-bigger-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=281604","title":{"rendered":"A Move On Rafah Might Be The Spark That Ignites A Bigger Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 Feb 10, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Middle East is short of exploding.<\/p>\n

Report: Egypt warns Israel Rafah offensive may lead to suspension of peace treaty<\/a> – Times of Israel<\/em>, Feb 10 2024<\/p>\n

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have added their voices to a rising tide of criticism of a planned Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip\u2019s southern city of Rafah, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated that such a campaign was forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu announced Friday that he had ordered the Israeli military to present the cabinet with a plan to both evacuate the city\u2019s civilian population \u2014 augmented by over one million refugees from the strip\u2019s north and center \u2014 and destroy Hamas\u2019s remaining battalions in the area.
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\nThe Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Egyptian officials warned the decades-long peace treaty between Egypt and Israel could be suspended if Israel Defense Forces\u2019 troops enter Rafah, or if any of Rafah\u2019s refugees are forced southward into the Sinai Peninsula.<\/p>\n

In addition, Saudi Arabia \u2014 which has already conditioned normalization with Israel on an end to hostilities and steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state \u2014 issued a statement Saturday warning of \u201cthe extremely dangerous repercussions of storming and targeting the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip,\u201d given the city being \u201cthe last refuge for hundreds of thousands of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reuters reported that in an effort to forestall a massive influx of refugees, Egypt has over the past two weeks stationed some 40 tanks near its border with Gaza, after having reinforced the border wall since the beginning of hostilities, both structurally and with surveillance equipment.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Israel\u2019s Channel 12 also reported that IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi was opposed to Netanyahu\u2019s plan for a swift Rafah campaign, saying that although the military is technically capable of such an operation, it would be unwise to undertake it without coordination with the Egyptians and plans for the city\u2019s massive refugee population.<\/p>\n

Plans are made to react to an onslaught on Rafah:<\/p>\n

Cont. reading: A Move On Rafah Might Be The Spark That Ignites A Bigger Explosion<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Even the IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi was reportedly opposed to Netanyahu\u2019s plan for a swift Rafah campaign. However, that won\u2019t necessarily stop Jewish supremacists from attempting to seize Rafah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281605,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281604\/revisions\/281605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}