The people's hearts are scattered, the team is not easy to lead, and the classic quote of "Uncle Li" in "No Thieves in the World" has now become the voice of US President Biden. In order to get out of the quagmire of war in the Middle East, the Biden administration has recently continued to put pressure on Israel to stop its military operations in Gaza and accept Hamas's proposal for a ceasefire. However, while the peace talks are still ongoing, Israel does not listen to the "advice" of its big brother at all, and even in the face of the situation that the United States has stopped military aid, Netanyahu still strongly stated that Israel will invade Rafah regardless of whether a hostage agreement is reached or not. Sure enough, on May 7, Israel started fighting overnight, dispatching hundreds of tanks to carry out ground military operations, Rafah changed overnight, and Biden finally waited for the bad news.
It can be said that Hamas has shown sincerity on the issue of a ceasefire in Gaza. Previously, Hamas's top brass had made it clear that Hamas was willing to disband if Israel agreed to Palestinian statehood. Taking a step back, under the mediation of Egypt, the United States and other countries, Hamas has also put forward the conditions for a phased ceasefire in Gaza, and is willing to release the Israeli hostages, on the condition that Israel fully withdraw its troops and lift the blockade of Gaza. However, the red-eyed Netanyahu government has no intention of peace talks at all, and always wants to eliminate Hamas completely. In the eyes of Netanyahu and other Israeli military and political leaders, Rafah has become Hamas's "last bastion". The purpose of this military operation is not only to force Hamas to release the hostages, but to eliminate Hamas completely. Therefore, before launching the ground military operation, the Israeli army not only used air strike force to destroy many Hamas military positions in the Rafah area, but also closed the Rafah border crossing and completely cut off Hamas's supply lines. At the same time, the ground military operation against Rafah was also carefully planned.
According to Israeli media reports, the ground offensive was spearheaded by the Israeli army's elite 162nd Armored Division. As the ace unit of the Israeli army, the 162nd Armored Division has four brigades, and the 401st Armored Brigade is equipped with hundreds of "Merkava 4M" main battle tanks. Under the cover of Israeli artillery and air force units, the Israeli infantry and tanks coordinated and the armored units took the vanguard to advance with all their might, and a number of infantry brigades and armored brigades followed up, and Hamas's Rafah Line was easily broken through by the Israeli army. It is foreseeable that the follow-up Rafah will also repeat the battlefield situation in North Gaza, and once again usher in tragic urban street fighting.
In order to stabilize the situation in Gaza, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a warning about the Israeli army's military operation and called on Israel to stop attacking Rafah and avoid a greater humanitarian catastrophe. In terms of diplomatic rhetoric, China's first mention of "grave concern" since the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October last year is enough to show the extent of China's concern about the fighting in Gaza. You must know that after more than half a year of war, Gaza is now full of holes and ruins, and the Rafah area has also become the last "pure land" for the Palestinians. Because although Rafah was also bombed indiscriminately by the Israeli army, it was never attacked by the Israeli army on the ground, so millions of Palestinian refugees gathered in Rafah, and international aid also arrived through the Rafah crossing. Now, the Israeli army has launched a ground offensive, which will inevitably cause huge casualties, and the closure of international humanitarian relief channels has left millions of Rafah refugees facing the dilemma of without electricity, food, and water.
While China is making every effort to promote the Gaza peace process, Israel's reins have made a series of previous efforts by the United States come to naught. The Biden administration's previous goal has been very clear, by supporting Israel in its fight against Hamas, it can not only weaken Iran's "axis of resistance" in the Middle East, but also use Israel to reconstruct the Middle East pattern and restore US hegemony in the Middle East. However, as the war in Gaza continues to spill over and escalate, more and more forces join it, and the United States has become more and more unable to do so, and has to change its policy, hoping to withdraw from the Middle East through the Gaza ceasefire, and then use the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia to ensure control in the Middle East. Now, Israel's security is out of control, and the anti-war movement in the United States is even more climaxed.