A bullet entered one side of his neck and exited the other without hitting any significant arteries--something his doctor described as 'nearly impossible.'
'Rafah is critical to the completion of Israel’s objectives in Gaza—not only the last bastion of Hamas, but likely the location of many of the hostages.'
In the wake of October 7 and its ensuing conflict, a closer look at common misconceptions sheds light on the complex realities facing Israel and its adversaries.
"So I what I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks total access to all food and medicine going into the country,” Biden said.
'Never in the history of warfare have I seen such an effort by one of the protagonists in a war to lessen the effect on the population of the other side,' Graham said.
'Israel allows extensive humanitarian aid into Gaza ... despite Hamas violently disrupting aid convoys and UNRWA’s collaboration with them, we persist.'
'If we stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved, this means that Israel will have lost the war, and this we will not allow. Therefore, we cannot, and will not, succumb to this pressure.'
' ... We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.'
As the IDF prepares to enter Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in the Strip, Biden has ramped up his criticism, going as far as characterizing the operation as 'over the top.'
Israel agreed to the current 6-week ceasefire and hostage release deal, but Hamas refused anything short of a permanent cessation in the IDF's military operations.
The names of the fallen soldiers are 19-year-old Sergeant Dolev Malka from Shlomi, 19-year-old Sergeant Afik Tery from Rehovot, and 20-year-old Sergeant Inon Yitzhak from Mitzpe Ramon.