Netanyahu in Blinken: Israel will send an army to Rafa with or without American support

He does not back off in his land attack on Rafa, an area with too many civilians. Benjamin Netanyahu said today that Israel remains determined to send an army making land raid on Rafa, the city in the southern Gaza Strip, where more than 1 million Palestinians have been displaced, and that Israel will do so with or without US support. Netanyahu stressed in a statement that he told U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during his visit to Israel that there is no other way to defeat the Hamas Islamist movement without the Israeli army moving on to Rafa. “And I told him that I hope we will do it with US support, but if we have to – we will do it ourselves,” he stressed.