Joe Biden warned Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that an assault on Rafah “would be a mistake”, as he asked Israel’s prime minister to send a delegation to Washington with alternative plans for the next stage of its offensive against Hamas in Gaza.
In his first call with the Israeli leader in a month, the US president expressed his sharpest opposition to Netanyahu’s plans to launch a ground invasion in Rafah, the last remaining population centre in southern Gaza unoccupied by Israeli forces.
While Biden had previously said he did not want Israel to enter Rafah without a plan to protect civilians, he told Netanyahu that he believed Israel could achieve its goals there “by other means”, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.
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