Israel Begins The Preliminary Fire In Preparation For The Start Rafah Invasion
Updates on the Al-Aqsa Flood operation presented in this episode of Samri Channel.
American and Israeli officials said that the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed the White House that it wanted to set another date for a canceled meeting to discuss the possible attack on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, amid a tense climate between Israel and the United States, its largest ally.
Reuters quoted an American official as saying: “The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said that they would like to reschedule a meeting regarding Rafah, and that the United States is working with them on that,” while an Israeli official indicated that “Netanyahu is considering sending a high-level delegation to Washington by next week”.
Four American and Israeli officials told the Axios news website that “Netanyahu is planning to send a delegation that includes a number of officials close to them, (Strategic Affairs Minister) Ron Dermer and National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi, to Washington, next week, to hold talks in the White House regarding the operation.” Possible in Rafah.
Netanyahu’s office explained that “the Prime Minister did not agree to the delegation’s departure,” but he did not deny holding discussions about it, according to “Axios.” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller refused to confirm these statements, but said: “We believe it is important for this meeting to take place. We also believe that the plan that Israel said it intends to follow in Rafah will be a mistake, and that there is a better way, and we want to have the opportunity to present it.” .
“Axios” considered Netanyahu’s decision a “regression” after he canceled, last Monday, a visit by a high-level delegation to Washington to discuss the attack on Rafah, as a reaction to the United States’ refusal to use its veto power against a draft resolution in the UN Security Council. Calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. A senior American official told the website, “On Tuesday, Netanyahu sent a special message to the White House, in which he said that he did not intend to pick a fight with US President Joe Biden.”
Earlier Wednesday, the Israeli Prime Minister considered that the decision to cancel a visit that his senior aides were scheduled to make to Washington aims to send a message to the Hamas movement that Israel will not yield to increasing international pressure to stop the war in Gaza, after the United States expressed its “Disappointed” by this decision.
Netanyahu added in video statements during a meeting with US Senator Rick Scott, who is visiting Israel: “It was sending a message to (Hamas) that it should not rely on these pressures, as this will not work, and I hope that it will understand this message.” Netanyahu described Washington’s abstention in the Security Council from voting on a resolution calling for an “immediate” ceasefire in Gaza, and not using the veto, as “a very not good step.”
He pointed out that “the worst thing about it is that it encouraged (Hamas) to take a tough stance and rely on international pressure in the belief that it will prevent Israel from releasing detainees and from destroying the movement.”
