Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the IDF and the defense establishment to bring to the war cabinet a plan for both the evacuation of civilians in the south Gaza city of Rafah and the neutralization of the four Hamas battalions therein, the Prime Minister’s Office stated on Friday.
Hamas cannot be defeated with four battalions remaining in Rafah
It is impossible to achieve the goal of the war without eliminating Hamas, and by leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah,” the statement noted. “On the contrary, it is clear that intense activity in Rafah requires that civilians evacuate the areas of combat.”
The Prime Minister’s Office:It is impossible to achieve the goal of the war without eliminating Hamas, and by leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah.On the contrary, it is clear that intense activity in Rafah requires that civilians evacuate the areas of combat.
“Therefore,” the statement continued, “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the IDF and the security establishment to submit to the Cabinet a combined plan for evacuating the population and destroying the battalions.”
Therefore, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the IDF and the security establishment to submit to the Cabinet a combined plan for evacuating the population and destroying the battalions.
Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, take shelter in a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 8, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA)
Abbas’s response and claims
The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday a plan announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a military escalation in Rafah at the southern edge of the Gaza Strip aims to drive Palestinians from their land.
The office of Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority that exerts partial self-rule in the West Bank, said it holds both the Israeli government and the US administration responsible for the plan’s repercussions.
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The Palestinian presidency called on the UN Security Council to take heed, “because (Israel) taking this step threatens security and peace in the region and the world. It crosses all red lines,” the statement said.
Civilians in Rafah in the Gaza Strip need to be protected, but the United Nations does not want to see any forced mass displacement, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Friday after Israel began looking for a way to evacuate Palestinian civilians from the area and defeat the last Hamas terrorists.
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