Netanyahu orders IDF to begin operating in Rafah, Gaza

Feb. 7, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it abundantly clear about the IDF being prepared to act in Rafah, on Wednesday night.

"We have instructed the IDF to also take action in Rafah and in the two camps in the center [of Gaza], the last remaining strongholds of Hamas. The IDF will facilitate the civilian population to move away through a humanitarian corridor according to international law,” Bibi said.

This was the first time Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with IDF top officials have said that going into Rafah was going to happen--no more abstractions, this is the plan.

However, multiple defense sources discounted the idea that a major change in policy or imminent invasion of Rafah was taking place.

But it's possible that something is going on with the notion of taking action in Rafah, because defense sources have no real explanation of why Bibi said what he did, and sources close to him haven't backed down. 

Palestinian dude standing in an IDF destroyed PA police car trying to impress the ladies

The military also noted that in response to the attacks from Lebanon towards Mount Dov, Shetula, Goren, and Margaliot in multiple rounds on Wednesday, IDF artillery counterattacked the sources of the fire. But this is only a tit-for-tat and those kinds of responses never puts an end to conflict.

The Hamassholes didn't fire any rockets on Wednesday or Tuesday, with the last rocket fired on Monday being the only rocket fired by the scumcrumpets since Saturday.

Even since December 8, most days Hamas has either not fired rockets or fired rockets in single digits, and with only a few exceptions, only short range rockets at the South. This might indicate the terror group is low on weapons. It might also indicate the terrorists who launch rockets have been sent to Jannah and got their virgin rations.

According to the Jerusalem Post, IDF sources say that Hamas' leadership and the hostages may be in Rafah, hiding among the 1.5 million Palestinian civilians, and some may be in a part of central Gaza which the IDF has yet to deal with.

The problem with going into Rafah has to do with its border with Egypt and the danger to the huge population there.

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