🇺🇸🇮🇱 U.S. readies plans for mass evacuations if Gaza war escalates

The Biden administration is preparing for the possibility that hundreds of thousands of American citizens will require evacuation from the Middle East if the bloodshed in Gaza cannot be contained, according to four officials familiar with the U.S. government’s contingency planning.

The specter of such an operation comes as Israeli forces, aided by U.S. weapons and military advisers, prepare for what is widely expected to be a perilous ground offensive against Hamas militants responsible for the stunning cross-border attack that has reignited hostilities. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to detail internal deliberations, said Americans living in Israel and neighboring Lebanon are of particular concern, though they stressed that an evacuation of that magnitude is considered a worst-case scenario and that other outcomes are seen as more likely.

📎 Washington Post

🇺🇲🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡The US rejects calls for a ceasefire as it would benefit Hamas.

This statement was made at a briefing by the coordinator of strategic communications at the National Security Council, John Kirby.

🇵🇸🇮🇱❗Resources close to Hamas published footage of the next batch of weapons that the group received. As can be seen from the footage, Hamas is now armed with modern Western AT-4s and NLAWs. Re-export from Ukraine is gaining momentum.

🇵🇸 Palestinian teenager after two weeks of merciless bombing:

- Come. We want to become martyrs.
- What happens after martyrdom?
- The next generation will come. All these sacrifices for Palestine, all these sacrifices for our land.

🇮🇱 Russian "anti-war relocants" take note.

"We are now in a state of war. We have no tolerance for anti-war protesters , whether they are nurses, doctors, singers , it doesn't matter. They have no right to protest. "

The head of the Israeli police said that everyone who opposes the war and from a humanistic position in relation to the Gaza Strip will face the “iron fist” of Israeli law enforcement.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 In turn, Hezbollah continues to fire at observation towers and IDF positions on the border between Israel and Lebanon.

But despite the aggravation of the situation in the border area, Lebanon is not yet going to fully intervene in the conflict.