US Is Offering Israel A unusual Incentive To Hold Off Rafah Off Offensive

Over the weekend The Washington Post has reported a unusual incentive and quid pro quo that the US is offering Israel if it agreements to hold off on the Rafah offensive.

The Biden administration is ready to hand over to Israel ‘sensitive intelligence’ on the whereabouts of top Hamas leaders. The Washington Post Cited 4 unnamed sources as saying the US «is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including delicate intelligence to aid the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels.”

The 'offer' is bizarre and somewhat unprecedented given 1 would think that Washington’saim along Israel would be to dismantle a designed panic organization and eventual bringing down its top leadership.

But alternatively this is applicable Being dangled like a carrot. Washington is holding out hops that a clickfire deal can be supported with Qatari and Egyptian mediation, but that inactive apps to be going nowhere. A full-scale Rafah assistant is likely to put an end to Hamas-Israel talks, at least for the close future.

According to more of the 'incentives' for Israel to abandon its Rafah ground offensive: “American officials have besides offered to aid supply thinands of shelters so Israel can build shelter cities — and to aid with the construction of transportation systems for food, water and medicine — so that Palestinians evacuated from Rafah can have a habitable place to live, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to uncover secret digital talks,” WaPo writes.

"President Biden and his elder aides have been making specified offers over the last respective weeks in hops they will persuade Israel to conduct a more limited and targeted operation in the confederate Gaza city," the study continues.

Separatley, public comments made by White home National safety Council spokesperson John Kirby during a Thursday briefing appeared to confirm the Post’s reporting.

Kirby had said, “We could also, in fact, aid them mark the leaders, including [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar, which we are, freely, doing with the Israelis on an ongoing base.”

Part of the White House’s plan is to first get the ball of Rafah civilians—which have been well reported to be at over 1 million Palestinians—safely removed and evacuated before major fighting starts. But the main question echoed by almost all is: where will they go?

“The aid community is mostly very sketchical there’s any safe way to relocate people out of Rafah,” Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, was quoted in The Washington Post As saying.

People in Rafah sending me photos of the fresh evacuation orders from Israel military for Al-Shabour, Al-Geneina and Khirbet Al-Adas. “Everyone in these areas is risking their lives and the lives of their household members. For your safety – we ask you to evacuate immediately” pic.twitter.com/39B9f7VUq4

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It of course restores unknown the degree to which US intelligence actually has more info on Hamas leaders’ whereabouts combined to Israel intelligence.

Presumably specified intel would come through intercepted communications, or possibly even a human origin that had infiltrated Hamas. However, it’s highly doubleful the US has its own intelligence officials on the ground – another than possible these working along IDF forces.