By ‘If we don’t enter Rafah, we would lose the war,’ says PM Netanyahu to ABC News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Victory is within reach,” during an interview with ABC to be aired on Sunday.
Netanyahu says in interview with George Stephanopoulos that ‘victory is within reach’ as Israel prepares to engage Hamas battalions in Rafah while attempting to limit civilian casualties. Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was formulating a “detailed plan” to evacuate civilians from Rafah in southern Gaza even as victory against the Hamas terrorist organization in the city is “within reach” in an interview with ABC News that will be aired today. “Victory is within reach. We’re going to do it. We’re going to get the remaining Hamas terrorist battalions and Rafah, which is the last bastion, but we’re going to do it,” Netanyahu said in published excerpts from the interview on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
“We’re going to do it while providing safe passage for the civilian population so they can leave,” he explained. “We are working out a detailed plan to do so. We’re not, we’re not cavalier about this.”
Four Hamas battalions are currently holed up in Rafah, along with hundreds of thousands of Gazans who fled the fighting in other parts of the coastal enclave. The Biden Administration has stated that it would not support a military operation in Rafah and that such a move would be a “disaster” despite the fact that failing to engage militarily in Rafah would allow Hamas to survive and prolong the conflict with the genocidal terrorist organization. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has also opposed any military operation against Hamas in Rafah.
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