Israel has pulled all of its ground troops out of southern Gaza for “tactical reasons”, the country’s army has said, raising questions about the future direction of the war as Hamas and Israeli delegations travel to Egypt for a new round of ceasefire talks.
Two brigades will stay in the northern half of the Gaza Strip and the new corridor that now bifurcates the Palestinian territory at Wadi Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday, in order to “preserve the IDF’s freedom of action and its ability to conduct precise intelligence based-operations”.
It is believed the drawdown is primarily to relieve reservists after nearly four months of intense fighting in the decimated southern city of Khan Younis, rather than any significant shift in strategy.
Coincidentally right after Biden applied some pressure
Gotta look at trends. So far since the pressure…
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Port of Ashdod opened for aid
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Erez crossing opened for aid
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Entire 98th Division withdrew from Gaza (here)
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Israel’s war cabinet expanded mandate of negotiating team in hostage deal talks
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322 humanitarian trucks entered Gaza today, a record
- 2,000 2,000lb bombs transferred
- 1,000 500lb bombs tranferred
- 1,000 small diameter bombs transferred
- 50 fighter jets promised in deal going through approval process
Someone downvoted you for stating facts lol. Gotta love
RedditLemmyI fully expected that.
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Biden said he demanded an immediate ceasefire which did not happen:
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Israel is still in violation of the UN ceasefire resolution during Ramadan from two weeks ago that the US didn’t Veto
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500 trucks a day is the minimum that needs to enter. 322 is not nearly enough
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More crossings are not needed. Before the Genocide 500 trucks were able to enter through Rafah.
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The ships that were going to deliver aid through the sea pier have turned around in fear of israel bombing them
More crossings are needed, because the infrastructure has been bombed to hell and can’t handle anywhere near the traffic if used to.
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Imagine that. Biden had it in his power to change what Israel does after all.
Wonder what other times centrists have said he’s powerless when he isn’t.
I don’t know that anyone really believed he couldn’t do it. The issue is around what happens with your allies or political repercussions at home
As with all foreign relations, it’s a fluid situation. What can work today, may not be able to work yesterday.
About 6 months late, and after all the ‘serious people’ assured us things aren’t just that simple. I guess late is better than nothing.
The “tactical” reason is that the US threatened to shut down its aid program.
Tactical reason can be fired once the troops are at a safe distance.
So they about to just start bombing it instead of sending in troops to shoot everyone?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Israel has pulled all of its ground troops out of southern Gaza for “tactical reasons”, the country’s army has said, raising questions about the future direction of the war as Hamas and Israeli delegations travel to Egypt for a new round of ceasefire talks.
But the timing of the announcement coincides with the beginning of a round of mediated talks in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, aimed at securing a second truce and hostage release deal, and is being received as a positive sign that the latest negotiations, after much faltering, may finally bear fruit.
The CIA director, Bill Burns, is also expected to attend the talks, which will begin on Sunday evening, alongside the Qatari foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under growing international pressure over his forces’ conduct in Gaza and the desperate humanitarian situation, said on Sunday that Israel would not give into Hamas’s “extreme” demands or agree to any ceasefire until the remaining hostages were released.
Hamas, the militant group that seized control of Gaza in 2007, triggered the bloodiest war in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict with an unprecedented cross-border offensive on 7 October, in which they killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted another 250, according to official Israeli tallies.
Famine is “projected and imminent” in the northern half of Gaza, a UN-backed report said last month, and according to Oxfam the number of people facing “catastrophic levels” of hunger has nearly doubled since December.
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