Sharjah 24 – AFP: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to send ground forces into Gaza's southern Rafah city despite international fears for the fate of Palestinian civilians sheltering there.
The right-wing premier, whose security and war cabinets were also due to discuss latest international efforts towards a truce deal, stressed that "no amount of international pressure will stop us from realising all the goals of the war".
"To do this, we will also operate in Rafah," he told a cabinet meeting, before he was set to meet visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for talks on the war raging since “Hamas” militants attacked Israel from Gaza on October 7.
Israel has repeatedly threatened to launch a ground offensive against “Hamas” in Rafah, now home to nearly 1.5 million mostly displaced Gazans sheltering near the Egyptian border.
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