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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When asked by reporters at the White House what his message to family members of hostages was, he said: "Hang in there, we're coming." [...]

White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on the presidential plane, Air Force One, that intelligence confirmed the militant Hamas group, which rules Gaza, used tunnels underneath Al-Shifa and other hospitals to conceal military operations and to hold hostages.

I'm not sure how you interpret "we're coming" by Biden regarding hostages that US intelligence says are being held in the hospital currently being raided, but it certainly doesn't seem like Israel is doing this at odds with Biden's intentions.

If anything, Biden's red line of "hospitals must be protected" seems like it might be behind the IDF claim in the original article of:

The IDF forces include medical teams and Arabic speakers, who have undergone specified training to prepare for this complex and sensitive environment, with the intent that no harm is caused to the civilians.

We'll see what the next few hours hold, but Biden's comments just a few hours before and the US intelligence publicly weighing in certainly looks like this is intended to be a hostage rescue operation which the US is at very least aware of if not actively involved in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

It's absurd to claim that IDF wants "no harm to civilians". They wouldn't be bombing residential neighborhoods on the scale they are if they had that goal.