JERUSALEM, Israel – Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says the Israel Defense Forces reached a major military milestone: the defeat of Hamas in Khan Younis, the second largest city in the Gaza Strip, and home to many in the Hamas top leadership.
Now, Gallant says the IDF is moving on to their next targets.
He declared, “The (Hamas) Khan Younis Brigade boasted that it would stand strong against the IDF. Today it is dismantled. And I’m telling you that we are completing the mission in Khan Younis, and we will also reach Rafah (at the Egyptian border) and we will eliminate anyone who’s there, who is a terrorist, who is trying to attack us.“
On the diplomatic battlefield, the U.S. State Department kept up its push for a Palestinian state and the implementation of a two-state solution.
Thomas Friedman of The New York Times reported on what he says it part of the Biden Doctrine for “an unprecedented diplomatic initiative to promote a Palestinian state – now – and “stop letting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold our policy hostage.”
U.K. Foreign Minister David Cameron said on Thursday his country would recognize a Palestinian state.
“That has long been our position,” Cameron stated. “And of course, as part
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