Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Israel would launch a ground assault on Rafah, despite pressure from the US not to carry out a large operation in the Gazan city where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering.
In an address to a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, Israel’s prime minister acknowledged US President Joe Biden’s opposition to a ground operation into Rafah but said there was no other way for Israel to achieve its goal of destroying Hamas.
“We have a debate with the Americans over the need to enter Rafah, not over the need to eliminate Hamas, but the need to enter Rafah,” Netanyahu said at a sitting of the Knesset’s foreign affairs and defence committee.
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