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US pulls military personnel from Israel, urges Americans not to travel
By Emily Jacobs
May 14, 2021 | 9:01am | Updated
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The United States withdrew 120 military personnel from Israel after Israel Defense Forces announced that it had deployed ground forces near the Gaza Strip.Spc. Briauna Zeigler, 21st TSC
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The United States has withdrawn 120 military personnel from Israel and is advising Americans to reconsider any travel plans to the region amid an escalating bloody conflict involving thousands of rocket exchanges and ground troops.
News of the personnel removal and the travel advisory came late Thursday, after the Israel Defense Forces announced that it had deployed ground forces near the Gaza Strip four days into a deadly conflict with Hamas and Palestinian militia groups.
The US staffers, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Thursday, were from US Central Command and US European Command. The group was 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.
Some of the personnel were in Israel for planning purposes for an upcoming bilateral event, but ended their trip early given the circumstances.
An explosion lights the sky following an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021.
MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images
As the Defense Department pulls out some of its own people, the State Department is urging Americans to reconsider any travel plans they may have for Israel.
In a notice issued later Thursday, the department raised its travel advisory for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza to Level 3, which suggests Americans “reconsider travel.”
Relatives mourn over the bodies of three children from the Al-Tanani family, killed in an Israeli airstrike.
MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images
It was previously at Level 2, which tells individuals to “exercise increased caution” in the region.
“Protests and violence may continue to occur, some with little or no warning,” the advisory read.
Israeli tanks are positioned along the border with the Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021.
MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images
Tel Aviv came under a barrage of 130 rockets launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, sending residents fleeing for shelter as air raid sirens blared across Israel’s second-most populous city.
Israel’s Iron Dome defense system was activated later that night, with the streaks of multiple interceptor missiles lighting up the skies over the area.
The heavy bombardment came after an Israeli strike earlier Tuesday evening that leveled a high-rise building in Gaza that housed the offices of several top Hamas officials. That strike had come in retaliation for earlier Hamas aggression.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a selfie with U.S. soldiers in Israel on March 6, 2021.
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Bethany P. Williams
Both sides had been firing at each other throughout the day, in some of the worst fighting between Israel and the terror group since their 2014 war.
As of Thursday, at least 83 people have been killed in Gaza since the hostilities erupted Monday. About 400 Palestinians have been injured.
A building is damaged after being hit in a shelling in the city of Ashkelon, Israel, on May 14, 2021.
EPA/ABIR SULTAN
On the Israeli side, seven people have been killed, including a 21-year-old soldier.
In total, more than 1,600 rockets have been fired at Israel since Monday, with 400 falling short, according to figures from the Israel Defense Forces released Thursday.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/14/us-wit...amid-conflict/
we are already there.. did you not notice the demonstration before it became a riot at the Capitol?
a few came to riot but almost all came to protest a no confidence in the state elections for POTUS.
The Marxists are redoing society -it's our very own Cultural Revolution -throw out the "olds"
How many Jews do you want to see pushed into the sea?
Self-defense isn't genocide. This isn't the first time Hamas has used civilians as a meat shield. It's a common tactic by them. They often set up their rocket launchers next to schools, hospitals and religious buildings hoping to spark international rage when the IDF retaliates.
PRO TIP - When the IDF warns you that the Hamas HQ in the building you share is about to be bombed, it's a good idea to get the fuck out of the building.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
After the weeks I have seen you posting here in opposition to America and in support of the evil-doers, to see you deceivingly posting as a patriot and a US military veteran is despicable and I refuse to stand idly by as you do it.
I hope to freeze you out.
As you say hello to my 'little' ignore list, I will say good-bye to your lies.
After several weeks watching you post in opposition to America and in support of the evil-doers, to see you deceivingly post as a patriot is unacceptable to me and I refuse to stand idly by as you do it.
As you say hello to my 'little' ignore list, I will say good-bye to your lies.
Those pro-Palestinian blokes in London really understand how to be the voice for their side.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-p...heir-daughters
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
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