Israel Agrees to US Talks on Rafah After Scrapping Earlier Visit
- US expresses concerns about Israeli course of action
- Meeting set to happen as soon as next week, readout says
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The US and Israel agreed to hold an in-person meeting to discuss their dispute over an expected Israeli invasion of the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrapped an earlier visit amid increasingly sour ties.
The meeting, which could take place as early as next week, was announced in a carefully worded readout from a video call of the two sides’ so-called Strategic Consultative Group. It said the US “expressed its concerns with various courses of action in Rafah,” while Israel “agreed to take these concerns into account and to have follow up discussions between experts.”