Israel vows to press ahead with Rafah offensive | DW News

Six months into the war in Gaza, Israel faces strong pressure from the US not to mount a full-scale ground offensive into Rafah. Israel has withdrawn many of its ground troops from Gaza, but says it hasn't finished its military operations there.
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02:44 Marc Cancian, Center for Strategic and international Studies
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#Israel #Gaza #rafah

[@HASIB1313]

no news about mass grave right? lets not talk about it

[@philgriffin8687]

Apparent mass grave... according to DW an apparently reliable souce of info.

[@catalina5382]

What do you want them to do? Present it in every episode? Look in their history, they did it yesterday.

[@sampicano]

@@catalina5382 this show SUCKS

[@freedombro6502]

​@@sampicanohamas sucks 😕

[@lawrencehawkins7198]

@HASIB1313 Tut-Tut. Can’t have truth and facts spoiling a crafted, Bravo Sierra narrative…

[@user-yy9hk9od9u]

They will enter Rafah no matter how many protests there are.

[@barryleveson6147]

and do everything they see necessary

[@brianonesmus5418]

Next week Israel starts moving civilians to Khan younis

[@Meteyard97]

And thank god amirite

[@carlose6010]

War only brings more extremism, look at elsewhere in the middle east

[@LS-uw5cc]

The sumple answer us no. Hms is a resistance movement like PLO was. If hms disappear, another resistance movement will come. Occupation is the problem, not the resistance.

[@aaronrocs]

Not moving on is the problem. Not letting go, is the problem. Martyrdom culture is the problem.

[@nvmtt1403]

@@aaronrocs they cant exactly move on through an army that will shoot them if they get closer than 70 metres now, can they? this is not egypt where you can board a dinghy and be in france by the end of the week.

[@Meteyard97]

@@nvmtt1403do you think he means physically move on?😂😂 Reading comprehension at an all time low but that’s no surprise with Pali supporters

[@bookertee3057]

Hamas and their Gaza supporters shouldn't have started this war.

[@matthewslatter8791]

Correct 🎉

[@LS-uw5cc]

Isrl started the war by occupying Palestine, confiscating the land in west bank, putting Gaza under siege, murdering 1000s of Palestinians before 7 Oct.

[@user-ye2sm1gq7l]

This war started in 1948. You are late.

[@LantangKaturay]

@@matthewslatter8791No. Incorrect! Free Palestine!

[@freedombro6502]

​@@LantangKaturayJordan is a country 🇯🇴 😂

[@greenwave819]

Maybe Hamas should stop using civilians as human shields...

[@maxrichter1984]

IDF is using Palestinians as human shields. There are several instances (video evidence btw) of Israeli soldiers driving bound and beat captives before them as "human shields"

[@greenwave819]

@@maxrichter1984 lmao ur funny. the blue pill is bad for you

[@maxrichter1984]

@@greenwave819 ok dude, I live in the matrix and you took the red pill...🤣 You chose the comforting and 'conventional belief' over the uncomfortable and harsh Truths. Orwellian worldview that you have my friend, but history will not adjudicate you.

[@barryleveson6147]

Hamas is to blame for the the suffering of the people who should rise up and deliver them to Israeli military justice

[@JesusChrist73457]

This is so evil and so wrong.

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

Isreal needs to continue to defend itself from newborns

[@mirror452]

And Germany supplies 30% of the weapons.

[@philgriffin8687]

You forgot about the aid workers, journalists, women, buildings, 80 year olds, 12 year olds playing outside their houses. Also hostages trying to run to saftey while holding a white flag and anyone else without weapons.

[@mlgswagmaster8913]

Lmao, trueee

[@ghtwghtw7197]

Let's help report the news about the mass graves here since they refuse to report it.

[@jimifash]

Where are the rest of the hostages?

[@Deonara]

Which ones? Israeli or Palestinians???

[@jimifash]

@@Deonara Israeli hostages.

[@mariahewitt9787]

​@@jimifash Netanyahu sent them on Holidays in the USA, with his Son Yair.

[@remi_gio]

They were killed by the IDF… as we know they don’t discriminate and kill their own - young impressionable boys who feel emasculated by holding guns🤢🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Mataewicz]

@@Deonara there are no Palestinians hostages, just prisoners, most of them with blood on their hands

[@user333-us4qz]

26 billion dollers in weapons aid. realy show that 🤣

[@lawrencehawkins7198]

Israel. Doing a bang-up job of making not-friends world-wide. Keep up the good work!

[@afs6596]

define not-friends

[@satyagun1]

What about the hostages? Why no one puts pressure on Hamas to release them?

[@Deonara]

Because the IDF was supposed to do that!!!! How did it go???

[@Blankarte]

Hostages are irrelevant for Israel Government & the IDF

[@whatgoesaroundcomesaround920]

Israel wants to destroy Hamas and anyone else who gets in their way MUCH MORE than they want to rescue the hostages.

[@garethrasmussen6186]

@@Deonara How are you going to save the Hostages?

[@Deonara]

​@@garethrasmussen6186. Which hostages? Israeli (100+) or Palestinians (5000+) ?

[@emmanuelreuven7350]

Can we clean the house without cleaning it? 😂

[@erikt1713]

Istael needs to take full control of the Strip and reoccupy it. They cannot leave out a major place like Rafah.

[@Kohen124]

"Hamas sentenced its existence in Rafah."

[@ruyaal]

They can’t kill an idea of freedom and resistance.

[@Kohen124]

@@ruyaal Yes it is possible and they are destroying themselves.

[@ruyaal]

@@Kohen124Not as much h as Israel, a rogue nation not very popular anywhere in the world.

[@mariahewitt9787]

​@@Kohen124 Ezekiel 38~39....Is Coming.....

[@Kohen124]

​@@ruyaal The world proved to be with us when the Iranians attacked, tough luck guy looking for some clever argument.

[@kayskreed]

They can't defeat them whether they choose to enter Rafah or not. You don't defeat an ideology through military means, just ask the US with ISIS and the Taliban. But they can certainly create a bigger mess. I'm certain Netanyahu will try to go to Rafah because he needs war to stay in power. If not Rafah, then a bigger war up north.

[@juttaspeaks]

They DW does not talk about facts

[@shasha14779]

There lost the war against hamas . Long

[@shasha14779]

Rafah is 1.5, million people . ISRAEL enter rafah because there target civilians people . Because there lost the war but there not accept there kill civilians people in rafah there say there kill hamas fighter but this all lies

[@hakimkalule588]

​@@shasha14779So where are the Hanas fighters?

[@dannyarcher6370]

1:50 - Why does the jet flame out like that?

[@kaputojsab8534]

When US War with Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, did anyone one ever stop US?

[@ricobacalla1891]

Nope because its basically a proxy war which russia amd america as main participant. Whom to stop when the strongest in the world are the ones doing it, both have thousands of nukes

[@menschin2]

The civilians did with milions of protests. We could see on TV.

[@chansito33]

Those ppl their heart is deeply hurt, my God mercy on both sides

[@NewHeart-rd1gv]

The simple answer is that the ideology cant be but arms smuggling can be by controlling the main smuggling areas.

[@mamunalrashid5981]

This news channel have no shame

[@54peace]

Already too late. When start???

[@Irishtradchannel]

No.

[@legostud]

Why does it need to be an Arab peace keeping force to manage Gaza? I get not have Israel do it, but why does it need to be an Arab country?

[@mystudies7437]

Because anyone else will be targeted much more by Palestinians.

[@user-wc8gw9km4w]

Can lsraeI defeat children and women?

[@williamskerry6658]

Is possible Rafah God bless America God bless Israel

[@marvinmartinez5552]

You think. Israel has been sitting on their hands since 1948! ❤

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

We must not be silent while witnessing injustice. Israel is committing war crimes and US/Germany/UK are complicit in those crimes.

[@afs6596]

define complicit

[@user-wc8gw9km4w]

lsraeI will always deny everything and blame someone else

[@kuyacesarvlog6582]

The US can try why not but they can't...

[@thiphan264]

There are tunnels to Egypt. If they don't go into Rafah, they can not destroy the tunnels.

[@OmarAhmed-jo1cf]

It’s not a skill issue , they can do targeted operations like the ones they do against hezbollah or Iran , but this isn’t their objective they want the Gazans to flee to Egypt by destroying their homes and give excuse to so called „collateral damage“ because its a war not an anti terror campaign, which plays into their policy of creating unbearable life for the Palestinians until they eventually leave .

[@shannon_886]

This.

[@cadong8964]

I love this professor

[@suamung]

How American research works on war

[@RonyOnline]

shame how can you call this offensive 😡

[@user-ye2sm1gq7l]

See? I made a coment talking about the hypocrise of YOU KNOW WHO, didn't use not even one offensive word, but my comment was deleted. Congratulations, democracy deffenders.

[@afs6596]

back to mommys basement for u

[@user-wc8gw9km4w]

Can lsraeI defeat Hamas even if they enter Rafah? How can they differentiate between civilians and Hamas?

[@mystudies7437]

The same way they did until now... and that is exactly why this is a very difficult war to fight. What else can they do?

[@user-wc8gw9km4w]

@@mystudies7437 send ground troops in order to not have so many casualties and not to destroy the whole civilians infrastructure for 2+ million people would've been an idea 😀

[@Stevejoesofficial]

35k civilian + dead .

[@Mataewicz]

not all of the 35k are civilians... at least half Hamas people...

[@Stevejoesofficial]

@@Mataewicz keep telling yourself that

[@reepsone7985]

netanyahu gets pegged in the yahooooooooooo

[@infiniti28160]

Do you condemn genocide and illegal settlements?

[@geoms6263]

yes we condemn arab illegal settlements?

[@whatgoesaroundcomesaround920]

Sure, if you could find one. The only illegal settlements in Israel, Gaza and West Bank are Israeli.

[@philgriffin8687]

@@geoms6263 You spelt Israeli wrong. Though nice to see you agree they are illegal.

[@juttaspeaks]

No, DW does not

[@amenselah]

Se jodio Rafael

[@Pyramidalist]

Manipulative title ... not only clickbaiting ... kind of complice of gangster-syndicates in middle east.

[@user-ns8hj2ws3s]

Jen tak dal

[@klmn48]

No it can't clear Gaza of Hamas if it don't enter in Rafah!

[@user-wc8gw9km4w]

How do you know who is Hamas and who is civilian?

[@klmn48]

@@user-wc8gw9km4w In the same way, how IDF did it from 7 October till now!

[@user-wc8gw9km4w]

@@klmn48 how they do it tho? All Hamas member can drop their weapons and camouflage with civilians, how will they know?

[@lynghee159]

♥️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱✝️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇸 NEVER AGAIN IS RIGHT NOW!!!!!

[@TahmKench4life]

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of Palestinians.” - Nelson Mandela Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@afs6596]

delusional

[@urbansenicar81]

What does defeating Hamas looks like?

[@mystudies7437]

No military capability left, no known soldiers and leaders of Hamas left in a position to continue operations, no ability to smuggle in more weapons, new governance that opposes Hamas and its ideology. Not complicated really.

[@hookmuiyb]

Its not only about defeting hamas.. They want to get control of tunnels leading to Egipt.. Weapons are smuggled through the border.

[@TheJorrry]

This comment has good points👍

[@olorin4317]

They could tunnel in themselves and cut off the tunnels along the border. They could have tunneled under Gaza themselves years ago, built bases and set up seismometers.

[@juttaspeaks]

Israel built most of the tunnels decades ago. Tell the truth

[@mariahewitt9787]

​@@olorin4317 Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, Israel built Bunkers under Al Shifa hospital.

[@mariahewitt9787]

Avner Cohen, a former Israeli Religious Affairs Official who worked in Gaza for over two Decades, Said. "Hamas to my great regret, is Israel's Creation "

[@jsphfalcon]

Israel needs to de radicalize the Palestinian educational system

[@user-pf7tf3rf1u]

Vicious Israel.

[@felixmildon690]

Preposterous

[@winstonmartin8097]

Why give Israel so much money and then begging them

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

There's no honor among thieves. Israel doesn't have the right to steal Palestinian land. Israel doesn't have the right to commit genocide.

[@manzoorahmadlone6552]

Curse be on America ,Arab's and israeil

[@reepsone7985]

ISGAYLI

[@FreddyKrueger007]

France 🇫🇷 and Germany 🇩🇪 condemn Russia 🇷🇺 over Ukraine 🇺🇦 but support Israel 🇮🇱 attacking civilians in Palestine 🇵🇸 Double standards France 🇫🇷 and Germany 🇩🇪 Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@geoffsimpkins7650]

You seem to disregard the fact that Hamas started the event, bud.

[@bigpopsgg2429]

​@@geoffsimpkins7650so hamas helped set up the decades long israeli occupation then?

[@geoffsimpkins7650]

@@bigpopsgg2429 what are the Israelis occupying? They voluntarily left Gaza (for the Palestinians to ruin).

[@Blankarte]

​@@geoffsimpkins7650you seem to ignore this conflict has been going on long before Hamas, fella

[@jimifash]

​@@bigpopsgg2429 No. Hamas is a byproduct of the Arabs refusing to recognise that the state of Israel has been legitimized on November 29th 1947 after 33 countries voted in favour and 13 countries voted against the partition of British Mandate Palestine.

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

Israel relies on US like a beggar. Palestinians rely on courage like true warriors.

[@menschin2]

The USA, the EU and 20% of them and Israel finance the Palestinian Authority. Qatar and Iran and the Palestinian Authority supported Hamas. Hamas embezzled aid funds and used them for military purposes, thus causing October 7th. made possible. If I attack a country, should I peacefully watch as my people are slaughtered? That's hypocritical. Every country would have fought back with all its might. The civilian population is the one who suffers. Iran has wanted the complete annihilation of Israel since the mullahs came to power in 1979. Palestine is just a proxy. However, Netanyahu is a bad president.

[@afs6596]

hiding in tunnels is not courage

[@marvinmartinez5552]

All priwritten history! In the. Bible. Pastor, marvin,😮

[@Offlineforeverbyeby.]

Dunia hampir mau kiamat dunia umurnya pendek

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

Israel keep going, you have the rights to defend yourself

[@whatgoesaroundcomesaround920]

And if your child was one whose legs were blown off in the process, would you still support this form of "self-defense"?

[@catalina5382]

​@@whatgoesaroundcomesaround920 people said the same thing about whites in south Africa. History wasn't too kind with them and won't be to you either.

[@labourlawact7826]

​@@catalina5382What happened to whites in South Africa?

[@jimifash]

​@@whatgoesaroundcomesaround920 And if Hamas hadn't started the insanity, there would not have been the need for Israel to go that far.

[@TahmKench4life]

@@catalina5382 white South Africans are not native to the land but another colonizer. I wouldn’t feel bad for them at all

[@Plastikloud]

This expert is probably more knowledgeable about Mayonnaise than this topic!

[@FreddyKrueger007]

Philippines 🇵🇭 and India 🇮🇳 are angry at China 🇨🇳 for occupying disputed territory but support Israel 🇮🇱 brutal occupation of Palestine 🇵🇸 Double standards Philippines 🇵🇭 Double standards India 🇮🇳 Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

More journalists have lost their lives in Gaza than in any other conflict. A crime against humanity

[@richardgreenwood7956]

Don’t count every Hamas propagandist as journalists

[@erikt1713]

Way more journalists died in WW2. Of course, there were no casual vloggers then.

[@user-wc8gw9km4w]

Indeed in WW2 from 200 to 300 journalists, in Palestine 100+ in 6 months. ​@@erikt1713

[@mystudies7437]

A lie...

[@user-wc8gw9km4w]

WW2 200-300, Palestine 100+ in these 7 months

[@JesusChrist73457]

Violence everywhere no matter the place is evil and wrong.

[@ruthgallagher9584]

This was never about Hamas....This is about land, off shore energy and a trade route.

[@larrymcabee9379]

So, it's belongs to Israel..... they 1

[@johngring765]

This war is about one sides invisible Man in the sky is better than the other sides invisible man in the sky. Religion is solely to blame for all this death and suffering. What the eff is wrong with the human race.

[@lasmann4399]

It was peaceful in Gaza October 6

[@ruthgallagher9584]

@@lasmann4399 No, I here had been raids by the IDF and the people were in the he 3rd stage of genocide in their "open air prison". And, I feel sorry for the he IDF. I do not wish PSTD on the IDF for their destruction and death and the PSTD on the 1,000,000 childr n who experienced this. No one wins a genocide.

[@ruthgallagher9584]

@@larrymcabee9379 Henocide

[@buddadavid480]

Stop the genocide free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@JesusChrist73457]

Violence is Wrong 1. Violence is wrong no matter the place, violence is wrong. 2. We are all in this together period. 3. There is already enough suffering in this world. 4. Life is hard for everyone. Enough with the blood. Enough with the suffering.

[@shoot-n-scoot3539]

God gave "struggle" to every animal. Sharks kill to eat, wolves eat. We eat beef, chicken, fish, etc. With low populations, humans wouldn't need to fight for territory. God seems to have set things in motion so that there is reason for conflict.

[@vijaymujumdar5617]

Yes, Israeli PM is right. Rafa must be liberated from the clutches of Hamas. Similarly, American and European universities must also be liberated from stranglehold of Palestinians, that is Hamas and other assorted jihadists. As for the strategy after subduing Hamas would be re education of Palestinians. In this Chinese have special expertise. They have successfully re educated Yughurs in Xinjiang region. Palestinians should be sent there for normalisation. The cost of this exercise should be borne by the godfather Qatar.

[@hazlinabdulhamid7461]

Gaza is Isr4el..😬🇮🇱

[@juttaspeaks]

No

[@GladiatorDravenADC]

Pakistan 🇵🇰 support Palestine 🇵🇸 France 🇫🇷 support Israel 🇮🇱 Respect to Pakistan 🇵🇰 France 🇫🇷 is on the wrong side of history All western countries are on the wrong side of history Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@jimifash]

They are not. You don't know any history about the contested region.

[@jennisonkoshy3151]

​@@jimifash well said 👍

[@shahrumsayuthi5801]

We will always remember this genocide.

[@afs6596]

delusional

[@PerceivedREALITY999]

Saying netanyahu is not a war criminal is like saying biden can run up the stairs without stumbling

[@afs6596]

did you learn that in mommys basement?? asking for a friend

[@user-qk9he7se5w]

Can israel beat hamas? Look at gaza lmao

[@krisharjose6566]

Allah👹

[@winstonmartin8097]

Is there a school over 20,000 Palestinian children