The US State Department says there’s no way to safely evacuate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Rafah as the Israeli military prepares a ground invasion.
“We don’t want to see Palestinians evacuated from Rafah unless it is to return to their homes. And we have made that quite clear to the government of Israel,” said spokesman Matthew Miller.
“We don’t think there’s any effective way to evacuate 1.4 million Palestinians. There’s no way to conduct an operation in Rafah that would not lead to inordinate civilian harm and would severely hamper the delivery of humanitarian assistance. And that’s the point that we continue to make to them.”
Al Jazeera’s White House correspondent Kimberly Halkett has the latest from the White House and Bernard Smith is in occupied East Jerusalem for more on the potential ground offensive on Rafah.
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Then why are you giving them billions of dollars!?! Liars!
The US has no credibility
USA is kidding the world. USA and devil-England sent billions dollars lathal weapons to US-backed terrorist state of Israel then they talk about humanitarian ceasefire or result of attack to Rafah that will be catastrophic. USA and US-backed terrorist state of Israel have plan to make us-backed terrorist state of Israel as emperor in middle east precondition is to remove all resistance, among other Palestinians.
Iran needs to step up to the plate. Clearly we are lost. The world is watching us destroy our credibility on the main stage.
Warn, but at the same time, continues the supply of weapons. What a bunch of hypocrites.
You are a piece of 💩 . Saying that while sending more money early this week.
USA is just a puppet of Israeli terrorist ‼️ They only make this press conference for showcase of being righteous lawful nation pathetic terrorist nation
So what are you going to do if they don’t listen to advise. Sit and watch or send more money to Israhell?
But what about the other attacks on the other parts of gaza??? Stop trying to save face america, tell us the truth, you like killing for oil and money and a shippi g canal through an entire country
There are no homes left outside Rafah for Palestinian to go to, period!
I am sure the $26 billion to Israel only strengthens their desire to prevent this. What a joke the US has become.
I hear Benjamin Satanyahu will now reject the 26 billion dollar US aid package in protest for Biden putting sanctions on his military unit 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Finansiras li i dalje genocid ,proklet bio cionista .Palestina
F Islam
Why are the US arming Israel. They are funding the inordinate harm caused by the IDF, and then saying they shouldn’t do it? How insincere is that?
Election coming. They have to beg them not to go into Rafah, to look like they have some decency but we all know they have given them more billions to do whatever they want.
26 BILLION TO INVADE RAFAH – THATS HOW MUCH THE US PRESSURE THE 👺 STATE!!!
Doesn’t miller, mean israel’s, and, the united states of israel’s, war of aggression, for palestinian land? Just to be more correct. After all, zionists in the demorat party, started this conflict, 75 years ago. Over 45 un resolutions, against israel, for crimes against palestinians, all vetoed, by the united states of israel.
Not sure if anyone watched Colonel Douglas MacGregor – stated they call Washington Epstein Island as majority of politicians have been blackmailed .
WHAT HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE???
Why not condemned but warning the double standards
Sorry, you can’t suck and blow at the same time. American rhetoric cannot be taken as credible. This critical situation will not end well and the US will continue to support a sinking ship. Go figure. Your tax dollars at work.
You can only bully a people when you’re in a position of strength. But beware when that changes and you lose your strength
Usa hypocrites and liars enabling and complicit in genocide
Pressure? What pressure? Still sending arms
Tell monster sinwar
Israel doesn’t listen to the USA.
They don’t even care about the hostages.
Stop sending money and bombs to Israel this is pure and simple
And Biden agrees to allow Israel to bomb Rafa? He’s pathetically weak. We can’t support a Rafa ground operation? It’s genocide!
No bombs, no $$$$.
Israel will do whatever she wants to do period!
Usa is sopporting this kill
Your spelling is horrendous
These war criminals clearly think we’re stupid.
The evil is speaking.
What good are their (worded) warnings when (in deed) they’ve done everything in their power to enable this attack? It’s all so disingenuous.
And the us will be a spectator!
Screw u Biden and your administration your full of BS
The world know US is only doing lip service here. They said one thing and doing it the other. Do not think that the whole world is stupid. If u dont want isnotreal to escalate this war, return of refugees, and stop R@f@h invasion, call for a ceasefire! We know Joe Biden and the whole House of Representatives has been bought by aipac. All of them and the whole Western Government who are clearly complicit in this genocide are corrupted with money to support Isnotreal cause. So much of civilised democratic people are the west. No you not.
Homosexuals must take action not words
They are seeing standing buildings in Rafah, that is what they want to go after.
Here is what needs to happen. BRICS need to begin immediately. Isolating the USA is necessary because of the support they give to Israel for genocide. They are the leaders of a terrorist organization called NATO and furthermore with the power they posses, they use it for supression, intimidation and illegal colonialization of sovern nations. With the combined strength of humanitarian loving nations like Russia, China and Iran and whatever other nation they believe to be eager to help those in need, they would be capable of accomplishing much good for the embetterment of mankind. I’m an American. I see our leaders suppressing good and encouraging evil. Our constitution states that all men are created equal having been endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among them are LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS!! Once they are isolated from the other leaders of the world, I would like to think they will collectively begin the process of restoring their humanitarian based nationhood by becoming energy independent and taking their new place in the world with examples set before them in BRICS based nations. They lie, they don’t pay their bills, they steal other nations money and our humanitarian loving friends are those who suffer. Please start BRICS. Please help the Palistinians. Please restore the world order through BRICS.
He can hardly wait 😮
no sh**
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Flogging a dead horse. Sadness.
The US is a joke
And the govt of Israel has continuously said kick rocks. Now what!? 😂😂😂
Actions speak louder than words at this point it doesn’t matter what the US says about anything
Enough of so called “warnings “ US needs to be clear on its red lines and spell out clearly what the consequences will be.
Oh good. Let’s give starving people a camping holiday on manufactured islands with no food or water. You couldn’t make this stuff up
Sandwiches 🥪 makers are being looked for
There is NOTHING Jewish about Israel. The Jewish people has a long history of 2,500 years as a peaceful pacifist community in Andalus, Iraq, North Africa There is nothing Jewish about stealing land, Apartheid, about a Draconian Occupation. We need to say this loud and clear to Jews support GENOCIDAL Israel, SHAME on YOU! This is the beginning of the END of evil ZIONISM.
Israël lost the war and now back off and stay a way from them
I don’t believe anything from these hypocrites,….thy don’t practice wat thy say
Isra*l already started in Rafah while your still reporting this
If the US really gave a hoot about Palestinians they’d stop sending rabid, genocidal Israel all the weapons! What a shame: who’s the terrorist?!
Thank you so much All Jazeera for the updates on Rafah. ❤❤❤❤❤
ICJ WHEREARE YOU. ISREAL COMMITING WARCRIMES AND GENOCID. MASS GRAVES IN GAZA. US complicit
USA the biggest hypocrite. Genocide Joe has already given the green light. Stop all this drama nobody is buying your lies anymore 😒
But send them 25 billion more tax payer money
United Jokes of America
IF YOU DON’T WANT CHILDERN TO DIE, WHY DID YOU SENT MORE MONEY TO THE GENOCIDAL MENIAC YESTERDAY?
Then you try to stop. Hypocrite.
US don’t try to show that you are honest, good human, you have no sympathy for innocent children and women of Palestine. Then why this kind of 🎭
YOUTUBE DELETED ALL COMMENT WHICH ARE AGAINST OF ISRAEL BUT TRUE. TURKEY, QUTAR SHOULD PAY YOUTUBE SOME MONEY THAT YOUTUBE DON’T DELET OUR COMMENTS. LIKE ISRAEL PAID TO YOUTUBE.
The hypocrite USA
He smiles when he says we don’t want to out. Evil
They don’t think , they do think , they make them aware , they are working on a way , we are informing them ……….All these bullshit is fake !
zero credibility , 100% lies.
They oppose to the attack by supplying the arms to perpetrate the attack. Makes perfect sense….
Arabs have allways lived in tents they will be fine
Maybe then don’t let the Israelis do it then?
Hmm but they were ok with Bangladesh taking 2.2M refugees from Myanmar and how many Ukrainians have been taken in around the world 😅🤷🏻♂️
28 billion dollars of weapons and money to israel? 🤷
US has become the garbage of this planet.
Well if they’d release the hostages and Hamas surrender…….
Stop funding Israel.
Why can’t Palestinians FORCE Hamas to surrender NOW. Otherwise they are as much to blame to the war and suffering.
All of a sudden, hamas leadership is hiding in rafah? Then why not attack rafah since the beginning? Just shows you the objective is not hamas. it’s the palestinian people.
Shame in usa
Oh, shut up, you hypocrite US spokesperson.
It will lead to an inordinate amount of civilian death. Gazans have had their homes bombed and ended up in tents in Rafah, and now Israel wants them to move to another tent in a different location? How much can people take?
They wanted it to be done otherwise how Isreal couldn’t have agreed to it.
Humanitarian islands sound more like Israel’s version of concentration camps
You American words have no fuc.meen in becuse you American are too getor
The American is fall to all of this
What homes are they supposed to return to?
So were that last 100,000 people “ordinate”? 🤨
Genocide Joe’s government needs to stop sending Israel weapons of mass destruction
All the US does is talk and lie! I’m starting to believe that the US might actually want Israel to commit this genocide. I feel crazy even saying that but they are the only ones who could end this! They say no to Israel while sending billions. Calling the protests against this awful genocide “terrorists supporters”. Vetoing a Palestinian state while calling for a two state solution. I’m not sure who they are fooling? Not me
He is a hypocrite liar
Hum, isn’t Hamas the responsible party?
BS talk 👄
Pedophile Joe gave more weapons to Ukraine and Israel.
It is violation of international law to evacuate civilian from Rafah Israel is commiting war crimes
They really don’t know how to twist words not to call it for what it is: genocide.
US troops, you have families women and kids, stop fighting unjustly for puppets ✊
Dont kmow how anyone can or will believe the usa after their bs. Theyve also nulified the UN. Do they really think russia and china or any other country will take any resolution as binding after the usa veto and stating themselves that resolutions are non binding.
Hypocrisy at its limit, you are arming a psycho on steroids then empty words about not attacking on rafah
How many millions of dollars of infrastructure is lost in gaza?? . Who will pay for reparation, US or israhell
Israel is corroding red line as china warrens to usa
Return to what homes, what a joke