{"id":445480,"date":"2024-04-25T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/04\/25\/israel-says-moving-ahead-with-rafah-ops-egypt-warns-of-catastrophic-consequences\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T01:38:00","slug":"israel-says-moving-ahead-with-rafah-ops-egypt-warns-of-catastrophic-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/04\/25\/israel-says-moving-ahead-with-rafah-ops-egypt-warns-of-catastrophic-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Says &#8220;Moving Ahead&#8221; With Rafah Ops, Egypt Warns Of &#8220;Catastrophic Consequences&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Israel Says 'Moving Ahead' With Rafah Ops, Egypt Warns Of 'Catastrophic Consequences'\" alt=\"Israel Says 'Moving Ahead' With Rafah Ops, Egypt Warns Of 'Catastrophic Consequences'\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-04\/3hlbm4ng_israel-hamas-war_625x300_25_April_24.jpeg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Israel launched its war against Hamas after its October 7 attack<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIsrael on Wednesday said it was &#8220;moving ahead&#8221; with its planned operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to target Hamas, drawing a stern warning from neighbour Egypt. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"cheat__ttl\">Here Are 10 Points On Israel-Hamas War<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cheat-wrp\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>A spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s government said that Israel was &#8220;moving ahead&#8221; with a ground operation in Rafah. The defence official, however, gave no timeline.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The official said Israel&#8217;s Defence Ministry had bought 40,000 tents, each with the capacity for 10 to 12 people, to house Palestinians relocated from Rafah in advance of an assault.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Netanyahu has repeatedly said that Israel will press ahead with the assault on Rafah, the last major population centre in Gaza that Israeli ground troops have yet to enter.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Israel, which launched its war against Hamas after its October 7 attacks on Israeli towns, says Rafah is home to four Hamas combat battalions reinforced by thousands of retreating fighters.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Israel, however, drew a warning from Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, who said that any military operations in Rafah would have &#8220;catastrophic consequences&#8221; on the humanitarian situation in the sector and on regional peace and security.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rafah abuts the Egyptian border and is sheltering more than a million Palestinians who fled after the Israel-Hamas broke out more than six months ago.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s closest ally, the US, has called on it to set aside plans for an assault on Rafah and says that it can combat Hamas fighters there by other means.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Israel has withdrawn most of its ground troops from southern Gaza but has kept up air strikes and conducted raids into areas its troops abandoned.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Efforts by the US, Egypt and Qatar to broker an extended ceasefire in time to head off an assault on Rafah have so far failed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Gaza officials say that more than 34,000 people have been killed in Israel&#8217;s military campaign, with thousands more bodies feared buried under rubble.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span class=\"cmt_btnOut\"><span class=\"cmt_btn\"><a class=\"btn_bm cmt-ac cmt-dn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/javascript:void(0);\"><span class=\"ndtv-cmnt-cnt\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><span class=\"ndtv-cmnt-txt\">Post a comment <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/israel-hamas-war-israel-says-moving-ahead-with-rafah-ops-in-gaza-egypt-warns-of-consequences-5517431\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Israel launched its war against Hamas after its October 7 attack Israel on Wednesday said it was &#8220;moving ahead&#8221; with its planned operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to target Hamas, drawing a stern warning from neighbour Egypt. Here Are 10 Points On Israel-Hamas War A spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":445481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9850,48552,518693,49376,518694,490174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}