One day after Israel’s incursion into Rafah, the operation is straining relations between the White House and Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained why Israel’s war cabinet decided to enter Rafah and seize the Philadelphi Corridor yesterday, calling it “a very important step on the way to destroying the remaining military capabilities of Hamas, including the elimination of the four terrorist battalions in Rafah.” He emphasized the campaign will damage Hamas’s governmental capabilities.
Reports indicate that a private U.S. company will take over operations at the strategic Rafah border crossing, although the White House has objected to the Rafah operation for months.
John Kirby, National Security Council spokesman, said their Israeli counterparts revealed that the operation yesterday was “limited and designed to cut off Hamas’s ability to smuggle weapons and funds into Gaza.”
On Tuesday, at the Capitol Hill ceremony to remember survivors of the Holocaust, President Joe Biden condemned the recent rise of anti-Semitism and the Hamas massacre on October 7th.
“Now here we are, not 75 years later, but just seven and a half months later, and people are already forgetting or already forgetting that Hamas unleashed this terror. It was Hamas that brutalized Israelis. It was Hamas
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