The Israeli government spokesman has avoided giving a clear answer to the question of whether Israel would have agreed to forgo a military strike on Iran in exchange for receiving the green light to launch an offensive against Rafah. However, he insisted that the army will storm the city, “to put an end to Hamas.”
Israel continues its offensive against the Gaza Strip, where it has already killed nearly 34,000 people, mostly women and children, while uncertainty remains over a possible response to last year’s Iranian attack on Israel with more than three hundred drones and missiles. weekend.
Gaza’s Health Ministry announced Thursday that the death toll in the Strip after 195 days of war has reached 33,970 and the number of injured has reached 76,770; although the Hamas government has assured in a statement that the number of casualties between dead and missing rises to 40,970.
Meanwhile, apart from the insistence of Israeli authorities in their determination to respond militarily to Tehran, the details or options the country is considering are still unknown.
On Wednesday, after a meeting in his Jerusalem office with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to make it clear that no one was going to dictate how to respond to Iran’s attack .
In this sense, the Israeli government spokesperson has once again insisted that Israel will make its own decisions regardless of outside pressure, limiting itself to assuring that “it is now up to the Prime Minister and the War Cabinet to decide when and how to respond. “.
Concerned about the consequences of a possible response, European Union heads of state or government also called on Wednesday for “maximum restraint” following the Iranian attack to prevent tensions from spreading to the region, and urged an immediate response ceasefire in Gaza.
For now, in clear unwavering support for Israel, US President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Iran on Thursday, targeting the Revolutionary Guards and the Defense Ministry, for the attack on Israel.
Israel, determined to break into Rafah
The Israeli government spokesman today avoided giving a straight answer when asked by a journalist about information indicating that Israel had agreed to forgo a military strike on Iran in exchange for getting the green light to launch an offensive. launch against Rafah, in southern Gaza and Iran’s home port. 1.4 million Palestinians, most of them displaced, live in overcrowded conditions.
However, he has insisted that the army will storm Rafah to, as he has assured, “bring down the four Hamas battalions that remain (in Rafah).”
Source: EITB
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