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Mon 01 Jul 2024 10:58 am - Jerusalem Time

Report: Israel will announce within days the end of the Rafah operation and the end of the war in its current form.”

Israel intends to announce within days the end of its ground military operation that it has been waging for about two months on the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, according to what an Israeli report said, this evening, Sunday, and to move to the next stage of the genocidal war it has been waging on the Gaza Strip since. The seventh of last October.


This comes as the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is currently holding special security deliberations in this context at the headquarters of the Southern Command of the Israeli occupation army, with the participation of the Minister of Defense, Yoav Galant, the Chief of Staff of the Army, Herzi Halevy, the Commander of the Southern Region, and others. One of the leaders in the General Staff.


Israeli Channel 13 reported, “In the coming days, Israel is expected to announce the end of the operation in Rafah and the end of the war in its current form.” He added, “Netanyahu is currently deliberating with senior officials in the army about the end of the operation in Rafah and the (expected) dramatic change in the situation.” style of war.


According to the channel, this means moving to the stage of focused and specific raids and incursions accompanied by air attacks, noting that Netanyahu had confirmed in an interview he conducted with Channel 14, last week, that the battles in their current form (violent, intense and intense battles) that his army is waging in the city of Rafah “... "Almost finished."


Netanyahu stated, “The violent phase of the battles against Hamas is about to end. This does not mean that the war is about to end, but the war in its violent phase is about to end in Rafah.” He added in his first interview with an Israeli television channel since the start of the war: “After the end of the violent phase, we will redeploy some of our forces towards the north.”

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Report: Israel will announce within days the end of the Rafah operation and the end of the war in its current form.”