Israel-Hamas War: Joe Biden warns Israel against occupying Gaza, says ‘needs Palestinian authority’
CBS News, Joe Biden said the United States has been working to alleviate shortages of food, water, and gas to protect civilians. He also asserted that the extreme elements of Hamas don't represent all Palestinians. "But invading and "taking out the extremists" is a “necessary requirement".
But there needs to be a Palestinian authority. There needs to be a path to a Palestinian state", he added. It is pertinent to note that Joe Biden is considering a trip to Israel after being invited to a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to two people familiar with the internal discussions, Bloomberg reported.
The three-hour deadline issued by the Israeli military to the residents of northern Gaza to evacuate the region has been exhausted, which means that the troops could launch a ground offensive at any moment now. Officials of the Israeli Democratic Forces (IDF) said that they were awaiting the signal to be issued by the political leadership to enter the northern portion of the besieged Gaza Strip, as they prepare to “annihilate" the Palestinian militant group Hamas. An estimated 1.1 million residents of northern Gaza – amounting to almost half of Gaza's 2.3 million population – were told by the IDF to head towards the southern part of the region, between 10 am and 1 pm local time.
Once the deadline was exhausted, the IDF warned that it would “implement a wide range of offensive operative plans" in the region to target the Hamas militants. The ground invasion, which would reportedly involve 10,000 soldiers along with aerial and naval forces, will be set off following “a political decision", military spokesmen Lieutenant Richard Hecht and Daniel Hagari said in a press briefing. A possibility of
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