Tensions are rising between the United States and Israel over Israel’s plans to send troops into Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where nearly 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are sheltering. The White House is set to host a senior delegation of Israeli officials, probably early next week, to discuss U.S. concerns. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday that it was not possible to eliminate remaining Hamas battalions in the city “without a ground incursion.” The Biden administration has said storming Rafah would be a mistake.
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Middle East conflict live updates: Netanyahu remains set on Rafah operation, despite U.S. pressure
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to the Middle East on Wednesday to push again for a cease-fire deal and plan for how to govern a postwar Gaza. An “attack on Rafah would hamper any efforts to get a deal,” Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said Tuesday.
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, said Israel’s restrictions on aid getting into Gaza, and the way in which it is carrying out hostilities, “may amount to the use of starvation as a method of war, which is a war crime.” The globe’s leading body on food emergencies on Monday said northern Gaza may already be experiencing famine.
At least 31,819 people have been killed and 73,934 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and says 251 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operation in Gaza.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to the Middle East on Wednesday to push again for a cease-fire deal and plan for how to govern a postwar Gaza. An “attack on Rafah would hamper any efforts to get a deal,” Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said Tuesday.
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, said Israel’s restrictions on aid getting into Gaza, and the way in which it is carrying out hostilities, “may amount to the use of starvation as a method of war, which is a war crime.” The globe’s leading body on food emergencies on Monday said northern Gaza may already be experiencing famine.
At least 31,819 people have been killed and 73,934 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and says 251 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operation in Gaza.