News - Netanyahu: I made it clear to Biden that we are determined to enter Rafah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset that the country's army (IDF) will conduct a ground operation in Rafah, and that he told US President Joe Biden this during their telephone conversation yesterday, the Times of Israel reported. "We have a disagreement with the Americans about the need to enter Rafah," Netanyahu told the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. - Not about the need to destroy Hamas, but about the need to enter Rafah. We don't see a way to destroy Hamas militarily without destroying these remaining battalions. We are determined to do that." "In our conversation, I made it clear to the president in the clearest possible way that we are determined to complete the destruction of these battalions in Rafah. There is no other way to do it but to go for it," he added.