US President Joe Biden has said to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is very much concerned about the prospect of Israel conducting major military operations in Rafah on the lines of those in Gaza city and Khan Younis, said US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
The NSA said, ‘The President explained why he is so deeply concerned about the prospect of Israel conducting major military operations in Rafah of the kind it conducted in Gaza City and Khan Younis’.
Meanwhile, ‘On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu granted permission to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington for a discussion with Joe Biden’s administration officials about a prospective Rafah operation’, said White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Sullivan said, ‘We have arrived at a point where each side has been making clear to the other its opinion’.
The White House is not sure of Netanyahu’s plan to carry out an operation in the southern city of Rafah, where about 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering.
Benjamin Netanyahu said, ‘We discussed the latest developments in the war, including Israel’s commitment to achieving all of the war’s goals: Eliminating Hamas, freeing all of our hostages and ensuring that Gaza never again constitutes a threat to Israel’.
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