Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli army will carry out an operation in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, despite international pressure. His words guide the way RIA News.
“While you and the Israeli army are preparing to continue fighting, there is international pressure preventing us from entering Rafah and finishing the job. “As Prime Minister of Israel, I reflect this pressure,” he said.
According to him, the IDF will enter Rafah, where it will complete the liquidation of the remaining Hamas battalions.
Before that, Netanyahu confirmed the Israeli authorities’ intention to conduct a ground operation in the city of Rafah, on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which is considered the last stronghold of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas.
12 March Netanyahu statedIt was stated that the IDF’s Rafah operation in the south of the Gaza Strip will be completed, but Palestinian refugees will be allowed to leave. Rafah is the southernmost settlement in the Palestinian region, from which residents of Gaza and other cities in the region’s north fled at the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli war.
Formerly in the Israeli government in the name Approximate end time of the operation in the Gaza Strip.