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1/2: #GAZA: The Unknowns of the hostages and of the Khan Yunis combat. Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, FDD. Bill Roggio FDD

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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1/2: #GAZA: The Unknowns of the hostages and of the Khan Yunis combat. Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, FDD. Bill Roggio FDD
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2024/03/israel-rotates-units-as-khan-younis-battles-continue.php

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0:00.0

This is a CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

0:10.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.0

Bill Rajo, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's,

0:15.0

my colleague and co-host, and we go immediately to Israel.

0:18.0

Seth Fransman of the Jerusalem Post and the Foundation for the Defense of democracies, writing on Gaza, commenting

0:25.3

on Hezbollah. Seth is the author of Drone Wars, pioneers, killing machines, artificial intelligence, and the Battle for the Future, written so close to the future

0:38.0

that it's very spooky to see what Seth was identifying as possible. Right now it's in Ukraine, it's in Gaza, it's in

0:46.6

Darien Gap. The drones are not only surveillance, they strike. However, we're looking at from the air, air drops. Air drops increase in Gaza's

0:56.5

new method to deliver aid. Seth, a very good evening to you. The air drops surprised me.

1:01.9

I saw some of the packages landing at the edge of the water.

1:06.0

Right now, several days later, what is the mission here? How long will it continue and is it regarded as successful already?

1:14.0

Good evening to you.

1:16.0

Good evening.

1:18.0

Well, since the beginning of the war,

1:21.0

there have been air drops in Gaza. The Jordanians were the first to do it.

1:27.1

You know, that's I assume because of the close relationship between Jordan and Israel.

1:31.2

In some extent, the Jordanians are of course against the operation in Gaza but there is you know some sort of security relationship and they have very close ties with Washington.

1:40.0

Also it's a hop skip and a jump to fly from Amman over Israel to Gaza.

1:44.4

So there was already an air corridor to do some drops also because it helped to bring

1:50.2

medical aid to field hospitals. It was easier to drop things to them than it was to cart them

1:55.4

through the Egyptian desert and wait in line with trucks and things. Now fast

2:00.2

forward to the just recently so the Jordanian air drop or air corridor continues

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