Israel vows to press ahead with ‘powerful’ Rafah operation

Israel vowed on Wednesday to press on with a “highly effective” operation in war-torn Gaza’s Rafah, at the same time as calls mounted for it to carry off sending troops into the territory’s overcrowded far-southern metropolis.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu final week ordered the Israeli military to arrange for an incursion into Rafah, the place greater than 1 million displaced Palestinians are trapped.

Netanyahu has come underneath rising stress to chorus from launching a large-scale floor assault on Rafah, however has insisted Hamas’ battalions should be eradicated within the metropolis.