JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – As 2023 comes to an end, U.S. President Joe Biden and his team are putting increasing pressure on Israel to wrap up quickly its “high intensity” combat operations in the Gaza Strip.

But Israeli leaders are pushing back.

Now on Day 86 of its war with Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north, Israeli leaders say they need dramatically more practical military assistance from the United States to win quickly and decisively.

“Now is not the time to end or slow down our ground operations in Gaza,” a senior Israeli official told ALL ISRAEL NEWS.

“We are making tremendous progress against the enemy,” the official added. “Day by day we are defeating Hamas and we have no intention of stopping until the job finished.”

“As we go into 2024, Israel needs three things to win – ammunition, ammunition and ammunition.”

“We need ammunition of all kinds, but the more precision-guided missiles we have, the faster we can win and the fewer civilian casualties we will incur.”

It is a message Jerusalem has been repeating with growing urgency to the White House, Pentagon, U.S. State Department, and Members of Congress over the past few weeks.

Why?

Because the IDF is rapidly burning through its stockpiles of ammunition in Gaza.

Because the IDF’s fight with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon is intensifying, and in early 2024 could erupt into a far larger war as Israel seeks to push Hezbollah forces north of the Litani River, as required by UN Security Council Resolution 1701 back in 2006 but never enforced.

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