The six hostages whose our bodies have been discovered Saturday in a tunnel beneath Gaza — together with American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin — have been found in Rafah, the town that Vice President Kamala Harris informed Israel to not enter.
In February, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned that Israel was ready to enter Rafah, a key city on the Gaza-Egypt border the place Hamas leaders have been considered hiding and holding a few of the Israeli hostages.
Kamala Harris, echoing the Biden administration’s warnings, informed Israel to not enter Rafah, saying that there may very well be many Palestinian civilians killed, and warning of potential “penalties,” hinting that the U.S. would withhold weapons.
“I’ve studied the maps,” Harris mentioned.
KAMALA HARRIS warns towards an Israeli offensive in Rafah: “I’ve studied the maps.”
She is then unable to articulate something substantive past her left-wing speaking factors. pic.twitter.com/XBDhkU2XG3
— RNC Analysis (@RNCResearch) March 24, 2024
Israel determined that it was essential to enter Rafah. With minimal civilian casualties, Israel has killed a whole bunch of terrorists in Rafah — although the leaders are thought to have moved elsewhere inside the Gaza Strip. It has additionally rescued one hostage and recovered the our bodies of a number of others — together with Goldberg-Polin and 5 others.
Israel additionally established management of the Philadelphi Hall, a key strategic street alongside the border with Egypt, the place Israeli forces have discovered and destroyed tunnels that Hamas had used to smuggle weapons and different supplies into Gaza.
IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari mentioned Sunday that the six hostges had been murdered cruelly by Hamas as Israeli troopers closed in on their location, presumably primarily based on intelligence offered by a hostage rescued final week.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Massive at Breitbart Information and the host of Breitbart Information Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He’s the writer of “”The Agenda: What Trump Ought to Do in His First 100 Days,” out there for pre-order on Amazon. He’s additionally the writer of “The Trumpian Virtues: The Classes and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency,” now out there on Audible. He’s a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Observe him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
