Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that they had ordered the army to prepare for an attack on the Rafah region, where displaced Palestinians took shelter in Gaza. A statement came from the USA regarding Israel’s possible operation against Rafah.
US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel made a statement regarding Israel’s planned military operation against Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Patel said the United States would not support an Israeli military operation in Rafah “without serious planning” for the more than one million displaced civilians.
“MILITARY OPERATIONS WILL BE A DISASTER”
Patel said, “It would be a disaster to organize such an operation in an unplanned and poorly thought-out manner in a region where 1 million people live,” and said that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken clearly expressed this to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his last visit to Israel. .
Asked where more than 1 million people in Rafah could go given that they cannot return to the north of Gaza and the ongoing military operation in the south, Patel said: “These are legitimate questions that we believe the Israelis must answer.”
Patel also explained that they have not yet seen any evidence of serious planning for such an operation in Rafah. On the other hand, Netanyahu announced at the press conference held yesterday that he had ordered the Israeli army to carry out an operation in Rafah after Khan Younis.
(UAV)
