The International Court of Justice ordered Israel on Friday to “immediately halt” its offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza.
Nearly two weeks into an Israeli offensive in Rafah, an invasion that President Biden warned months ago could be a “red line” for continued U.S. support of its war in Gaza, the administration says that line has not yet been crossed. “If they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons ... to deal with that problem,” Biden said in an interview with CNN earlier this month, three days after Israel Defense Forces began operations on the outskirts of the city.
5 million Palestinians who had taken refuge there to escape fighting farther north. “What we have seen so far in terms of Israel’s military operations in that area has been more targeted and limited, has not involved major military operations into the heart of dense urban areas,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Wednesday. But humanitarian organizations on the ground say the administration is simply refusing to acknowledge what it doesn’t want to see.
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