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Israel’s major offensive against Hamas in Gaza City is causing frustration in Egypt, which is reported to be amassing forces in the Sinai Peninsula along the border with the Strip.
In two separate statements released on September 20, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said the offensive, codenamed “Operation Gideon’s Chariots B,” was still ongoing with the 162nd and 98th divisions advancing in Gaza City and destroying “terrorist infrastructure” there.
Elsewhere in northern Gaza, the IDF said the 99th Division’s forces directed strikes on several Hamas infrastructures and killed operatives. And in the southern part of the Strip, the Gaza Division destroyed additional Hamas sites, including tunnels, and killed several operatives in the areas Khan Younis and Rafah.
The IDF said in the first statement that the Israeli Air Force struck over 100 targets across the Strip overnight, and added in the second that an additional 120 targets were struck in Gaza City as a result of joint efforts by the 98th division and the intelligence.
Also during the day, the IDF acknowledged coming under fire for the first time since the start of its major offensive. According to the military, a soldier was moderately wounded after being hit by sniper fire while operating in the outskirts of Gaza City.
Al-Jazzer reported, citing Palestinian health officials, that at least 84 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire across the Strip during the day, including 69 in besieged Gaza City.
The deadliest attack saw an Israeli strike hitting al-Mu’atassim School in the western part of Gaza City. Dozens were killed or wounded in the strike, including children.
More than half of one million Palestinians who were living in Gaza City have already left, according to the IDF’s own estimates. While Israel is relieved by this mass displacement, Egypt is not.
Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on September 20 that Egypt had warned Israel that it will increase its forces along the border with Gaza if there is a mass wave of Palestinians that migrate from the Strip.
Within 72 hours of such an event, Egypt would double the number of troops on the border and bring in heavy weaponry and helicopters into the Sinai, according to the report, which noted that Israel must approve the transfer of heavy weaponry and increases in troops into the peninsula as a part of the peace agreement with Egypt.
An Egyptian military source told the newspaper that the increase in military forces in the Sinai would deter Israel from forcing Gazans across the border.
Later, a report by Israel’s Channel 12, citing Israel and American officials, revealed that Israel had asked the United States to pressure Egypt over its military buildup in Sinai.
“What the Egyptians are doing in the Sinai is very grave and we’re very worried,” one of the sources told the news channel.
Separately, an Egyptian source told the Israeli Haaretz newspaper that the military build up in Sinai was without “offensive intentions.”
“[Egypt] sees peace with Israel as a strategic asset. Its main concern is that Palestinians will be forcibly uprooted from their territory,” the source was quoted as saying.
Additional Egyptian and diplomatic sources told the newspaper that Cairo is concerned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to reduce Egypt’s troop presence in the Sinai in order to coercively remove Palestinians from the area.
Israel claims that its major offensive is meant to force Hamas to disarm and release all the remaining hostages. However, senior Israeli officials didn’t hide their desire to completely occupy the Strip and displace all Palestinians from there. Earlier this year, Israel and the U.S. were reported to be in talks with several countries that could host Gazans.
Egypt refused the displacement plan, and its worries now are very logical. With no one willing to host Palestinians from Gaza, the IDF may be planning to corner them along the border with Egypt in the hope of them breaking into Sinai, something that happened in the past.
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mr shekelsteuin train me to scrub jew toilets–he pay my tuition akron janitor academy
egypt is a pro israel dictatorship installed during the cia made arab spring protests.
egypt don’t have that thing to do anything against israel .
each day the us hegemon becomes a thing of the past, and each day all subservient countries seems to grow that “thing” called balls.
it don’t mean a ting if it aint got that ring.. try english next time, shlomo
southfront idiots think egypt is going to save gaza…heheheh
no they don’t. sisi is a bought and paid for whore who sold his soul to the jooz long ago. he won’t lift a finger against his joo puppet masters. he just doesn’t want hundreds of thousands of starving refugees from the joo genocide dumped on him. whore sisi hasn’t sent a single loaf of bread into gaza.
the hehehe retard is still butthurt and squealing. delightfuul to see it howl.
the idiots thought hezbollah would destroy israel too!!!
heheheh
hamas is losing, arab community foaming at the mouth about it lol
these quisling collaborator dictators have been in bed with the jooz for years. they aren’t foaming at the mouth about anything, they just drop their trousers and bend over.
something amiss hook-nose ? a hint of desperation in your bowel movement there.
you piece of chosenite filth
when viewing current videos from gaza. there is no hamas. just the struggling of a starving population herded to death.
alsisis is just a puppet in zio hands.
egypt’s the most populous arab country, also the most populated in africa & the middle east, it’s among the 12 largest armed forces in the world, but most importantly it controls the suez canal which is more important than the hormuz, al-mandeb & bosphorus straits. if egypt wanted it could force israel & all its us,eu,nato puppets to make israel stop their genocide in one day. or may be a large container ship like the ever given can accidentally get stuck again or sink in the canal
houthis should be able to organise a big sink event, and a video with it.
how about 4 as the seasons of a year or 7 as the days of week or 12 as the months of a year or 21 as 3×7 and why only the jutis?
it has already been done in 1956 by nasser. joos gave orders to french and uk armies to invade egypt. they would do the same today.
so sisi still do nothing . egypt rather build the troop to stop gaza people to go to sinai but would not fight israeli to stop genocide
a pity netanyahu can’t be taken out or just plain die of a heart attack, then he’d then face god’s judgement for his crime’s, plus the world would be rid of one warmongering zionist joo, as the israeli government would collapse into in fighting, and only the green goblin would remain as a warmongering troublemaking joo.
would be great if the zionist monster sisi would be overthrown and executed by a truly patriotic revolutionary government.
all of humanity rejoices when the demons from hell that oocupy the land of palestine get crispied and fried in palestine. here’s to the total destruction of the sub human garbage when it is finally sent back to hell from where it escaped. palestine will be free of the zionazi disease. and then who will want these vhosenite thugs back in their former ghettos? nobody!
khazars are of khazaria empire origin, so their homeland is khazaria (today’s southern ukraine and southern russia).
the jooz are shooting at shadows as the punk diper head morons and baby killers wait for certain death in gaza. you can’t kill palestine you porkers. it will never happen. israhell is doooooooomed.
only when the west their main support base liberates its self from these jewish parasites inside our institutions. and from our legislation. abolish all legislation that keeps their fake profession vict im hood alive.
they are the perpetrators of pure evil and they extort reparations and consessions from the goyim.
its time we put an end to the shoah business for good!
the west needs your help to spread the message about jews expose these parasites wherever you find them its the only way if you want to liberate palestine from their illegal occupation and land grab. the whole world would be a much better place if these jews loose their control and power base inside our contries. the middle east is a much more peaceful place. no more wars for israel.