Published 17 March 2024 at 16.31
Foreign. Despite protests from the outside world – including the US this time – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to carry out his planned ground offensive against Rafah.
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– It will take a couple of weeks but it will happen, he says.
Netanyahu is critical of the countries that protest the plans and refers to the Israeli death toll in the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7 last year.
< p>– If we end the war now before all the goals are achieved, it means that Israel has lost the war and we are not going to allow that.
Both Joe Biden and the Democratic group leader in the Senate Charles Schumer have criticized Netanyahu in harsh words this week and called for new elections in Israel.
According to Schumer, Netanyahu is wasting civilian lives in Gaza in order to score political points at home, which risks making Israel an international pariah. Biden himself has agreed with Schumer's statements.