Biden in Netanyahu: The attack on Rafa – “We will achieve our goals,” says Israeli Prime Minister

In the conversation – the US president said he considers a large-scale land operation of the Israeli army in Rafa “would be wrong”. During the phone communication they had today, the US president asked Benjamin Netanyahu for the U.S. inter-service Israeli delegation to discuss the plan of the attack on Rafa and the Israeli Prime Minister accepted, Jake Sullivan clarified during a press conference. The White House announced that Joe Biden warned Benjamin Netanyahu that an Israeli military operation in Rafa would intensify anarchy in Gaza and that the teams of the two sides would meet in Washington to discuss the matter Jake Sullivan told reporters that the two countries would discuss in depth how the situation in Gaza will develop, where the humanitarian crisis escalates after six months of conflict. The meeting will take place this week or next week and no operation in Rafa will take place before these talks. “Anarchy prevails in areas cleared by the Israeli army, but not stabilised” in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis will deepen if Israel progresses with the Raza attack, Jake Sullivan said summarizing Biden’s message to Netanyahu. “We had many talks at many different levels, at military level, at service level. Information, between diplomats and humanitarian experts, but to date we have not had the opportunity for a comprehensive, comprehensive strategic debate …,” he said. Biden told Netanyahu that he needed a coherent Gaza strategy, “and not Israel to go destroy Rafa.” The call was the first between Biden and Netanyahu for a month. Joe Biden, who almost unconditionally supported Israel after the October 7 attack, takes ever greater distances from Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu: We are determined to achieve our goals for today’s telephone communication the Israeli Prime Minister said he told the US President that Israel is determined “to achieve all the objectives of the war” in Gaza, among them the elimination of Hamas, the release of all hostages and to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel, while providing humanitarian aid, according to his office.