Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that he planned to move forward with a military operation in Gaza’s Rafah, as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Hamas to finalize a hostage deal with Israel to prevent such action.
“We will fight until complete victory with a powerful action, including in Rafah after we allow the civilian population to leave the combat zone,” Netanyahu wrote in a post on X.
He spoke out amid strong international condemnation of any potential operation in Rafah, which is near the Egyptian border.
Netanyahu has promised that he would move forward only once a plan to protect civilians in Rafah had been completed.... Read More: JPost