BREAKING WORLD WAR III NEWS: Netanyahu Makes His Military Generals Angry Because He Has Delayed the Invasion of Gaza to Eliminate Hamas, With President Biden Hinting at Waiting to Invade Gaza, While Western Allies in the European Union Are Pushing For a Complete Ceasefire. While This Foolishness is Happening, U.S. Defense Department Shows Iranian-Backed Militia Men Are Ready to Increase Their Attacks Against U.S. Troops in the Middle East - Living Strong Television Network
BREAKING WORLD WAR III NEWS: Netanyahu Makes His Military Generals Angry Because He Has Delayed the Invasion of Gaza to Eliminate Hamas, With President Biden Hinting at Waiting to Invade Gaza, While Western Allies in the European Union Are Pushing For a Complete Ceasefire. While This Foolishness is Happening, U.S. Defense Department Shows Iranian-Backed Militia Men Are Ready to Increase Their Attacks Against U.S. Troops in the Middle East
Israel’s Prime Minister (right) clashed with leading figures in the country’s defence forces over his decision to delay the incursion, which his military chiefs are said to be eager to start

BREAKING WORLD WAR III NEWS: Netanyahu Makes His Military Generals Angry Because He Has Delayed the Invasion of Gaza to Eliminate Hamas, With President Biden Hinting at Waiting to Invade Gaza, While Western Allies in the European Union Are Pushing For a Complete Ceasefire. While This Foolishness is Happening, U.S. Defense Department Shows Iranian-Backed Militia Men Are Ready to Increase Their Attacks Against U.S. Troops in the Middle East

General view of buildings which were destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on October 23
  • Leaders in the Israeli defence forces are said to be eager to start the invasion

Netanyahu has drawn the ire of Israel’s military chiefs as he has delayed the invasion of Gaza to eliminate Hamas, with western allies in the EU pushing for a ceasefire.

Israel’s Prime Minister clashed with leading figures in the country’s defence forces over his decision to delay the incursion, which his military chiefs are said to be eager to start, the Telegraph reports.

Meanwhile the European Union has pushed for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and terror group Hamas in order to deliver more humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said he backed a call by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a ‘humanitarian pause’, and added that it would give leaders more time to negotiate the release of the more than 200 hostages held captive by Hamas.

EU officials also drafted a statement in support of the proposal for an EU summit this Thursday and Friday.

 

After a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg, Borrell said there was ‘basic consensus’ on a pause. But diplomats from three EU countries, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that was not their impression of the meeting.

The divergence raised the prospect of diplomatic wrangling in the coming days to agree a text acceptable to all the bloc’s 27 national leaders, to be signed off at the summit.

Diplomats said there was consensus on the need to ramp up humanitarian aid, reflecting widespread alarm about the fate of Palestinian civilians after two weeks of Israel bombarding and blockading Gaza in response to the October 7 Hamas assault that killed 1,400 people and took more than 200 hostage.

More than 5,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to the enclave’s health ministry, and about 1.4 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are now internally displaced, according to the United Nations.

But EU countries had yet to agree on the best way to increase the flow of aid and some were concerned a pause could curb Israel’s right to defend itself, diplomats said.

Among the EU’s political heavyweights, France has backed a pause while Germany has so far not done so.

Elizabeth Borne, the French prime minister, called for a ‘humanitarian truce’ to deliver more aid to civilians in Gaza.

Two aid convoys – one of 20 trucks, the other of 14 – entered Gaza over the weekend from Egypt at the Rafah crossing, according to officials. But Borrell said 100 such trucks would normally go into Gaza even before the war.

‘Now the most important thing is for humanitarian support to go into Gaza,’ Borrell told reporters in Luxembourg.

Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Slovenia and Luxembourg have also publicly backed the idea of a humanitarian pause.

‘There’s a vital need to get water, to get food, to get medical supplies into Gaza,’ said Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin. ‘The degree of human suffering is immense. We have to distinguish between the civilians of Gaza and Hamas.’

But some ministers, such as Austria’s Alexander Schallenberg and Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipa, questioned the viability of the proposal, while others avoided taking a public stance.

The divergence in views broadly reflected longstanding differences within the EU over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with those seen as more sympathetic to Palestinians pushing for a pause while staunch allies of Israel were more reluctant.

Asked why Germany had not backed calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said recent days had shown the importance of getting aid into Gaza but had also made clear that Hamas was continuing to attack Israel.

‘We’ve all seen that the terrorism continues non-stop, that massive rocket attacks against Israel are taking place,’ she said. ‘We can’t end the humanitarian catastrophe when the terrorism from Gaza continues.’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak echoed Baerbock’s concerns by saying it would be ‘difficult’ to argue for a ceasefire since Israel had the right to defend itself.

Sunak told the House of Commons: ‘It is difficult to tell Israel to have a ceasefire when it is still facing rocket fire on an almost daily basis, and when its citizens are still being held hostage and it has suffered an appalling terrorist attack where it has a right to defend itself.’

US President Joe Biden said that any discussions about a Gaza ceasefire could only take place if Hamas frees all hostages seized from Israel in its October 7 attack.

‘We should have those hostages released and then we can talk,’ Biden said at a White House event when asked if he would support a ‘hostages-for-ceasefire’ deal.

His comments came shortly after Hamas said they had freed two more women hostages abducted from Israel.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that ‘we welcome today’s today’s release of two Israeli citizens held hostage by Hamas.’

U.S. Defense Department Shows Iranian-Backed Military Men Are Ready to Increase Their Attacks Against U.S. Troops in the Middle East

The US has intelligence that Iranian-backed militia groups are planning to ramp up attacks against US forces in the Middle East, as Iran seeks to capitalize on the backlash in the region to US support for Israel, according to multiple US officials.

The militia groups have already launched multiple drone attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria.

But the US now has specific intelligence that those same groups could escalate even further as the war between Israel and Hamas continues.

There are “red lights flashing everywhere,” a US official in the region told CNN.

Officials said that at this point, Iran appears to be encouraging the groups rather than explicitly directing them. One official said Iran is providing guidance to the militia groups that they will not be punished – by not getting resupplied with weaponry, for example – if they continue to attack US or Israeli targets.

On Monday, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said there is “a very direct connection between these groups” and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and he said the US is “deeply concerned about the potential of any significant escalation of these attacks in the days ahead.”

A senior defense official echoed that concern on Monday.

“We see a prospect for much more significant escalation against US forces and personnel in the near term,” the official said. “And let’s be clear about it. The road leads back to Iran. Iran funds, arms, equips and trains militias and proxy forces all across the region. … We are preparing for this escalation, both in terms of defending our forces and being prepared to respond decisively.”

Source: CNN.com

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