Moment Israeli tanks storm into Rafah and crush ‘I love Gaza’ sign in fight to ‘eliminate Hamas’

Moment Israeli tanks storm into Rafah and crush ‘I love Gaza’ sign in fight to ‘eliminate Hamas’

e [Music] Israel has tightened its choke hold on Rafa raising fears of a full-blown ground offensive despite calls from America and other allies including Britain for restraint now this comes hours after Hamas terrorists announced that they had accepted a peace deal which sparked cheers of joy in the bom blit City but that Joy was short lived because Israel dismissed the deal broken by katar and Egypt as a ruse and hours later IDF maava tanks were rolling south of the city and in Israel’s words seizing operational control of the vital Rafa border crossing that links the southern city of Rafa in the Gaza Strip to neighboring Egypt Rafa is to all intents in purposes the last City in Gaza that is affect effectively under Hamas control it is also the city where over a million refugees have taken shelter having fled their homes elsewhere in the Gaza Strip over the last seven months you may remember as G as Israel forgive me launched its offensive on Gaza City the largest city uh its troops ordered civilians to flee southwards and many of them made their way to Rafa and have been there ever since some living in appalling conditions the United Nations has raised repeated warnings about the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the Gaza Strip and those concerns have been echoed by the United States and the United Kingdom today prime minister Rishi sunak spokesman repeating British calls for on Israel to let more humanitarian Aid in last week we heard from Britain’s defense secretary Grant shaps he said he wanted to see Gaza flooded with Aid today the US state department has said it believes a hostage deal is in the best interest of the Israeli people and the best interest of the Palestinian people because it said that would lead to a ceasefire and lead to conditions in which humanitarian Aid more humanitarian Aid could make it into Gaza these are fraught times hopes of a deal are dying but perhaps not quite dead it may be that Israel’s latest maneuver with its tanks is an attempt to put more pressure more political pressure on Hamas terrorists to accept uh Israel’s proposed peace deal there are two peace deals in circulation and Israel saying that the latest offer the one broken by Egypt by Katan and of course with uh support and visits from the CIA director William buns during that negotiating process Israel saying that deal is a ruse that it doesn’t meet its red lines its Cor needs Israel had previously made its own offer uh to Hamas and Hamas had not responded had not accepted that deal [Music] for [Music] [Music] the [Music] philadel think there are two goals of War one is releasing all the hostages and the other is destroying Hamas as a governmental and Military entity and uh to destroy Hamas we must go into Rafa take over the Sol area reach the leadership of Hamas reach all the hostages because there is no scenario where Hamas is going to release all of them so it will need to be done militarily H but we understand that trying to release hostages in a military operation it’s complicated it’s dangerous so if we have a chance to Temporary agreement of ceasefire for 40 days and release a big part of the hostages who are alive because we know that only maybe half of the hostages are alive then Israel is willing to have the ceasefire for months or a bit more and then renew the attack the ground incursion because without that Israel is going to lose the war there is no scenario where Israel can afford losing a war against Hamas generally speaking when you do a very large around the incursion there is two phases one is a Conquering the area taking over the area destroying the main military capabilities the Brigade The battalions commanding control and so on so Israel has reached that in the northern part of Gaza in most of the central part in kanun in the South and basically Rafa is the last stronghold

POV footage showed the moment Israeli tanks stormed into Rafah crushing an ‘I Love Gaza’ sign as the IDF began a ground offensive against the remaining batallions of Hamas terrorists in the Gazan city.

After Hamas had rejected what US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called an ‘extraordinarily generous’ deal, the terror group later came back with fresh terms.

Israel said it couldn’t accept these terms, arguing this would have meant an end to the war and a situation which would leave Hamas in power.

Israel’s defensive military operation in Gaza was launched after Hamas murdered 1200 Israelis, carried out numerous rapes and took around 240 hostages on October 7 2023.

Hamas fired another barrage of rockets at Israel from Gaza ahead of the Rafah offensive.

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