Israel's op to finish Hamas in Rafah could be stopped if terror group kill hostages, expert warns

so it's going to be intense fighting in ROK this is not going to be small skirmishes this will look like a war it will feel like a war it will very likely Engage The Air power of the Israeli Air Force it certainly will Engage The Power fire power of the Israeli artillery and of course the Israeli infantry and the Israeli Special Forces but it comes with a series of difficult dilemmas that may start to play out in real time depending on how close to the Kamas leadership the IDF is able to camp for example will Hamas leadership will the leadership of Hamas seek to stop that offensive by the IDF perhaps by executing hostages it's not something that people want to think about out loud but it's something that absolutely has to be considered and how will the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli government respond if that does turn out to be the case we've recently seen the release of surviving hostages inside the Gaza Strip on video we've seen them released by Hamas for their propaganda aims those have been very jarring to the Israeli home front although I can tell you the overarching result of those videos has been not to deter Israel from moving forward inside the Gaza Strip but rather to encourage the Israeli people behind the idea that our hostages are still alive and therefore must be rescued and released from the clutches of Hamas so one of the reasons that you're seeing this feverish effort for a deal to be done other than the obvious is that this major operation by the Israel Defense Forces is going to be in the area of Raa which is the city that is adjacent to the rapak crossing the rapak Crossing of course abats the Sinai Peninsula which is Sovereign Egyptian territory Egypt has a very very deep concern behind the idea that the gazan population will be moved from the area of Rafa into the Sinai Peninsula which is something that the Egyptians want to avoid and as a consequence of that they are now leveraging as much pressure as they're able to on Hamas in order to see the hostages released now the stages of the hostage release are quite complex and very complicated Israel in a previous round was seeking to have 40 hostages released it's now reduced that number to 33 Hamas wants to see aerial surveillance stopped by the Israelis for eight hours per day 10 hours per day on days when hostages are released But ultimately what I think people need to realize and understand is that sinoa wants one thing above all he wants to see an end to the war he will take such an outcome as a victory he will propagandize it as a victory falsely so and he will Express by way of that that jihadism has survived it can survive any Onslaught by any enemy certainly any Western enemy certainly the Zionist enemy as he would term it and without him receiving assurances that a release of the hostages will result in an end of hostilities it's unlikely that we're going to see them released by way of a deal much more likely there will have to be some sort of military resolution to this crisis what that resolution will look like precisely is is unknown obviously e e e for for e

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Published: Sat May 04 2024