Hamas uses UN facilities for cover • US denies it withheld information about Hamas leaders' whereabouts • IDF kills Hamas terrorists in UNRWA school
Four officials from the PA, Israel and the United States told Axios that Israel made the request as Egypt threatened to disallow the transport of aid unless Israel withdrew from Rafah
The United States has denied withholding information to leverage against Israel and force it to cancel operations in Rafah.
The world should be calling on Hamas to return to the negotiating table and accept a deal, Sullivan said.
Egyptian and Qatari mediators working on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas will reconvene in Doha this week.
If Egypt begins to turn on Israel due to the Rafah operation, it could have widespread effects.
"If we want to defeat Hamas, we have to defeat Hamas in Rafah, just like we did in the rest of the Gaza Strip," he said.
What is at stake, Netanyahu said, is Israel’s “existence, liberty, security and prosperity.”
Egypt spoke up two days after South Africa turned to the ICJ and asked that it order Israel to stop its military operation in Rafah.
The architect of the October 7 massacre is believed to be protecting himself with a group of Israeli hostages he uses as human shields.
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