Israel Says It Will Invade Rafah No Matter What the US Says
- Dermer says operation is only way to destroy Hamas in Gaza
- He heads to Washington next week to listen to US concerns
Civil defense teams and locals carry out search and rescue efforts after an Israeli attack, in Rafah.
Photographer: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A top Israeli official said his country’s military is ultimately going to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah and defeat Hamas “even if the entire world turns on Israel, including the United States.”
“We are going to go in and finish this job, and anybody who doesn’t understand that doesn’t understand that the existential nerve of the Jews was touched” by the Oct. 7 attack when Hamas operatives killed 1,200 and abducted 250, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer said on a US podcast posted online Thursday.