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Netanyahu says ‘no way’ to eliminate Hamas without Rafah operation
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remained defiant Tuesday in the face of mounting U.S. pressure to abandon plans to invade Rafah, vowing to press ahead with an attack on the southern Gaza city, where more than 1 million displaced people have fled since the start of the war.
The tensions over Rafah come as new cease-fire talks are underway in Qatar, with hopes that mediators can get Israel and Hamas to agree to a deal that includes a pause in fighting for the release of some hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
David Barnea, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, departed the Qatari capital, Doha, on Tuesday, Ansari confirmed, leaving an Israeli team in place to continue discussions.
In the call Monday, Biden said that any effort to “smash” into Rafah would be a mistake, and that Israel and the United States, it’s principal military and diplomatic backer, had arrived at a “key strategic moment,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters that day.
Biden, Sullivan said, told Netanyahu that while he shared the goal of defeating Hamas, Israel needed to develop a “coherent and sustainable strategy to make that happen” without risking more civilian deaths and devastation in Gaza and the possibility of long-term peace.
Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, on Tuesday blamed starvation in Gaza on Israel’s “extensive restrictions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian aid and commercial goods, displacement of most of the population, as well as the destruction of crucial civilian infrastructure.”
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