Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said Monday that Israel’s warning to residents of Rafah to evacuate was not a bluff and marked the beginning of a long-promised operation by the Israel Defense Force (IDF) to win the war.
Asked at a press briefing by Breitbart News whether Monday’s warning — including flyers, SMS messages, telephone calls, and Arabic broadcasts — was a tactic to encourage Hamas to accept a hostage deal currently on the table, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer suggested that the warnings were exactly what they appeared to be.
“The purpose of the operation in Rafah is to do exactly what the IDF has stated,” Mencer said. “Rafah contains the last four battalions of Hamas. We cannot leave them in power:
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