WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday (May 12) said Israel lacked a "credible plan" to protect some 1.4 million Palestinian civilians in Rafah and warned an Israeli attack could create an insurgency by failing to kill all
Israel has shifted its focus to heavily populated Rafah in what it says is an effort to destroy the last bastion of Hamas WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said Israel lacked a"credible plan" to protect some 1.4 million Palestinian civilians in Rafah and warned an Israeli attack could create an insurgency by failing to kill all
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan raised President Joe Biden's"longstanding concerns" over a major Israeli assault on Rafah in a call on Sunday with his Israeli counterpart, Tzachi Hanegbi, a White House statement said. The report, which was unrelated to the bomb shipment, found no specific violations justifying withholding US military aid, saying the chaos of war prevented verification of alleged individual breaches.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, interviewed on the same program, called Biden's postponing the bombs"the worst decision in the history of the US-Israeli relationship". If Israel"launches this major military operation to Rafah, then there are certain systems that we're not going to be supporting and supplying for that operation," said Blinken.Most of the 1.4 million Palestinians in Rafah were displaced from elsewhere by fighting and Israeli bombardments that have devastated the seaside enclave.
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