The United States withdrew 120 military personnel from Israel and is warning Americans against traveling to the region due to escalating violence in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian territory controlled by the militant group Hamas.
Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters during a press briefing Thursday that the military personnel were from U.S. Central Command and European Command. They were flown out on a C-17 military transport jet to Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
“We made this decision to remove these individuals in coordination with our Israeli counterparts,” Kirby said. He added that some personnel were in Israel ahead of a planned bilateral event, but were withdrawn in response to escalating violence.
The State Department issued an updated travel advisory late Thursday urging Americans to “reconsider travel” to Israel due to the “dangerous and volatile” security environment within Gaza and along its borders. The department also noted that terrorist organizations and lone-wolf terrorists might be “plotting possible attacks in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.”
The personnel removal and updated travel advisory came hours after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced late Thursday it had deployed ground forces near the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian territory is controlled by Hamas, which the U.S. designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
Hamas and other militant groups like Islamic Jihad have fired more than 1,500 rockets at Israel in the last several days, with at least seven civilian and military deaths reported. Many of the rockets were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, while some fell back into Gaza instead of Israeli territory.
Israel launched targeted airstrikes in retaliation earlier this week. The strikes resulted in some civilian casualties but reportedly killed a top Hamas commander and several militants in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a press conference Tuesday that Hamas and Islamic Jihad “will pay a very heavy price for their aggression,” and reaffirmed Israel’s commitment to defend itself against terrorism. President Joe Biden held a call Wednesday with Netanyahu in which he “conveyed his unwavering support” for Israel.
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From the above-printed article on EUTIMES.NET:
“The United States withdrew 120 military personnel from Israel and is warning Americans against traveling to the region due to escalating violence in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian territory controlled by THE MILITANT GROUP Hamas.” (Emphasis added with Capital Letters).
Yeah! Right! I am sure King George III, according to his own selfish authoritarian unjust criminal ambitions and instrests in controlling Americans and in possessing their resources, also “considered” American patriots like Benjamiin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and especially, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON’s “rag-tag” American Militia” of underfunded and ill-equipped AMERICAN freedom-fighters resisting the despotic tyranny and biased cruelty of the British Empire: “A MILITANT GROUP!”
Figures! SO: When oppressive criminals “control the narrative,” i.e., in this instance: FASCIST ZIONISTS in the mass media and the MIddle-East — (non-ZIonist Jews excepted, for not all Jews are Zionists who cater to Theodor Herlz’s violent philosophy of military conquest of land via genocide in order to machinate bloody conditions aimed at “forging a so-called ZIONIST EMPIRE”) —- then, that ZIONIST-CONTROLLED narrative is always expressed in words, expressions, and terms that, not only “blame their violated victims,” but also “criminalize” the legitimate and natural RESISTANCE, i.e., in this instance, Palestinians and their famililes, to the inhumane, “cruel and unusual” destruction of their Human Rights as so-called “terrorism.” For: Were George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to live as “American freedom-fighters” against the British Empire’s criminal oppression, in this era of “politically correct” Zionist domination of the universe of discourse,– making every criticism of criminal Zionist violators an act of so-called “anti-Semitism” as if Zionists were above all God-given laws and above all laws of Human civilization — would they, that is, would George Washington, Madison, Jefferson and Franklin, also have been labeled as “terrorists?” God forbid that such a criminal insanity ever takes root on this Planet – That the self-evident truth of criminal agression by Zionists is kept all the time, manipulated or suppressed by Zionists in our mass media, in order to make these mortal Human oppressors “look good” in rationalizing their cruel inhumane abuse of their exploited victims, Palestinians, for more than 70 years of genocidal military occupation perpetrating well-known and long-condemned CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY! Remember, dear friends, neighbors, and fellow Americans: We Americans are UNDER GOD and not under Zionist-controlled propaganda! God bless the United States of America: One nation, under GOD, INDIVISIBLE, with liberty and justice for all – The land of the free and the home of the brave — “the last best hope of Earth” — that, as judiciously and transcendently prophesied by our beloved President Abraham Lincoln, “SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH!”
Yes, by the historical designs of “divine Providence,” President Lincoln, universally declared, at Gettysburg Cemetery on November 19, 1863, during our lamentable American Civil War that almost tore us apart through evil machinations that promted us to “court national suicide:”
— That this nation, UNDER GOD, shall have a new birth of freedom and That government of the people, by the people, for the people SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH!
Yes, even as he, President Abraham Lincoln, fell victim to that time of utter national disgrace in our regrettable American history, at the hands of a lawless criminal who took Lincoln’s life, because President Lincoln, diligently and dutifully served the eternal purposes of God’s divine plan for our great nation in this Universe, as he endeavored against all odds, “to nobly save the last best Hope of Earth,:” Our blessed American Union! Save our blessed American Union: In order that we might finally arrive at truly and really forming, ‘A MORE PERFECT UNION.” (President Abraham Lincoln, on December 1, 1862, during his address to our United States Congress).
In short, dear friends: Let’s “not throw the baby out with the bath water!” For, remember! In this Universe, on the Earth and under the Heavens: our blessed nation’s Greatest American Hope is: Yes, America’s greatest glorious Hope is: WE ARE UNDER GOD! And never under sinful mortal flesh! God bless the United States of America: “THE LAST BEST HOPE OF EARTH!” ***
General George Washington did not fight against an imagined despotic tyranny of the British Empire, he was in fact an officer in the British American Colonial Army loyally serving Britain. The reason that he turned against Britain was because the woman that he was in love with and wanted to marry, married a British officer instead, and because of this he became enraged and turned against Britain by starting an insurrection against the British Army in America, and also because senior British officers regarded George Washington as a mere colonial. Today we see the consequences of George Washington’s actions, America is now a rogue State waging wars of extermination against any nation that defies it. Also, Zionists are not Fascists, they are communists, and as for America’s glorious hope, America has no hope at all, America is being torn apart by the communist Democrat Party and their black and Antifa rent-a-mob. When America was locked into the British Empire it was a strong and unified Nation, no one can accuse America of being unified today.
This is an addition to my comment above About George Washington. The woman that George Washington was in love with and wanted to marry was called Mary “Polly” Philipse, who was forced to flee for her life to Canada along with many other Americans who remained loyal to Britain after the despotic tyrant George Washington seized power in America.
American troops fleeing for their lives from Hamas have decided to let the Zionist Terror State get a good kicking instead.