Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would not leave civilians trapped in Rafah.
Rafah, Gaza © Mena Today
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would not leave civilians trapped in Rafah when its forces begin a long-expected operation in the southern Gaza City where more than 1 million Palestinians have taken shelter.
"It's not something we will do while keeping the population locked in place. In fact, we'll do the very opposite, we will enable them to leave," he said during a press statement in Jerusalem with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The United States signed an agreement Wednesday to build its permanent embassy in Jerusalem, cementing in stone and steel a political decision that Donald Trump first made during his initial term in office.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise and France's most prominent hard-left politician, is now the subject of a criminal complaint for apology of terrorism filed by three French victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre.
The Israeli military withdrawal from two "pilot zones" in southern Lebanon, scheduled under last Friday's framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, has been postponed until both sides agree on a "joint supervision mechanism," Israeli Channel 11 reported.
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