In an effort to determine whether Hamas is truly interested in a peace, the Israeli war cabinet overwhelmingly decided on Monday to maintain its assault on Hamas’s final stronghold in Rafah.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office posted on Twitter / X ( with some translation via Google Translate ):
Prime Minister’s Office:
The War Cabinet unanimously decided to allow Israel to continue its military operations against Hamas in order to encourage the transfer of our victims and other war objectives.
Israel may send a delegation of working-level negotiators to try to reach an agreement in terms that are suitable to Israel, even though Hamas ‘ proposal is far from Israel’s required needs.
במקביל, אף שהצעת החמאס רחוקה מהדרישות ההכרחיות של ישראל, ישראל תשלח משלחת של דרגי עבודה למתווכות כדי למצות את ההיתכנות להגעה להסכם בתנאים שמקובלים על ישראל.
— ראש ממשלת ישראל ( @IsraeliPM_heb) May 6, 2024
Hamas announced that it had agreed to a ceasefire, words that Israel claimed were off the table, and the combat cabinet made the decision. That, in change, came after Israel began warning citizens of Rafah to begin to leave.
The White House seized on the news of Hamas’s “agreement” — though national surveillance spokesman John Kirby may not tell investigators what was in the contract, nor could he say whether the “ceasefire” was a” strategy” by Hamas.
The Army, according to the Israel Defense Forces, is presently carrying out targeted attacks on Hamas-terror goals in northeast Rafah and the southern Gaza Strip. Information to follow”.
Yet as Hamas broadcast images and video of Rafah celebrations at the so-called “ceasefire,” which Israel had never really acknowledged, a mixed air and ground invasion on eastern Rafah appeared to possess taken citizens by surprise.
Palestinians gather in Rafah, in the southeastern Gaza Strip, on May 6, 2024, after Hamas announced it had accepted a peace plan amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant party Hamas. After almost seven weeks of fighting, Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh, on May 6, informed negotiators in Qatar and Egypt that his Palestinian militant group had accepted their request for a ceasefire in Gaza. ( Photo by AFP ) ( Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images )
The apparent contradictions between Israel’s position and that of the murdered Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin were echoed in his phrases:” We must fight violence as if there is no peace process, and work to achieve harmony as if there is no terror.”
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