Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sounded a tone of triumph in the campaign against Hamas, and underscored the differences that still remain.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise visit to troops in southern Gaza, saying it was essential that Israel keep control of a strip of territory along the territory’s border with Egypt, just days before he was set to give a speech to the US Congress.
Netanyahu’s visit to Rafah was announced hours after Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. Ben Gvir’s move also could disrupt the talks over a ceasefire in the nine-month-old Israel-Hamas war. Netanyahu’s office announced his visit to Rafah once the prime minister had exited the war-torn Palestinian territory. Israeli forces invaded Rafah in early May, forcing most of the two million Palestinians sheltering there to flee.Rafah, once a crucial entry point for humanitarian aid, is now a dusty ghost town full of bullet-riddled apartment buildings with blasted-out walls and shattered windows. Very few civilians remain, even as the ground operation continues.
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