The White House: Israel's attack in Rafah did not cross the American red line!

May 30, 2024 - 08:01
The White House: Israel's attack in Rafah did not cross the American red line!

The White House described the airstrikes on a refugee camp in Rafah as "sad", but took no action to limit military aid to Israel or change its policies towards the Tel Aviv regime.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on May 28 that Israel has not crossed President Joe Biden's "red line" because, according to the US, it will not launch a full-scale ground invasion. in southern Gaza City.

"Everything we can see tells us that they are not moving towards a major ground operation in the residential areas in the center of Rafah," Kirby said.

Biden and his top advisers have repeatedly warned the Israelis against conducting large-scale operations in Rafah without a plan to provide security for innocent civilians. However, the Biden administration made it clear that it will not limit support for Israel because of Israeli crimes against civilians.

Kirby said Biden "does not make decisions based on popularity or public opinion polls conducted in the US or around the world," but acknowledged that "it is not in the interest of the United States or our partner, Israel, for him to isolate himself." even more so on the world stage."

 

Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, announced today (Wednesday) that several Zionist soldiers were killed and wounded by the explosion of a "Raad" bomb among the occupying forces in al-Tanur neighborhood east of Rafah city. .

According to the Palestinian news agency Al-Youm, the Al-Qassam Brigades detonated a Raad-type bomb in an operation in al-Tanur neighborhood east of Rafah city, which resulted in the death and wounding of 15 Zionist soldiers.

Al-Qassam Brigades also announced that Palestinian forces targeted two Merkava tanks of the Zionist regime with Yasin-105 missiles near the Khalid bin Al-Walid mosque in the Salam neighborhood east of Rafah city, located in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Also yesterday, the forces of the Al-Qassam Brigades in a combined operation ambushed a group of Israeli soldiers east of Rafah. Then, using a bomb, they killed seven of them and wounded a number of other soldiers.