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Sfeer is toch wel ietsjes grimmig in Ams.
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Israel’s continued closure of the Rafah border crossing is “choking off the entry of life-saving aid into Gaza”, says the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians attempt to flee Rafah as Israel shells eastern area of city sheltering some 1.5 million people.
Essentially what the president is saying is the Israelis have not yet crossed his red line in Rafah.
This is something reporters here at the White House have been trying for a very long time to determine: what is going too far in the eyes of the president? Clearly, it hasn’t been in excess of 34,000 Palestinians being killed because the president has continued to supply military weaponry up until this point to the Israelis.
The pausing of the shipment of 3,000 bombs is significant. What the president did make clear in that interview, however, is there will be ongoing support for Israel in terms of self-defence – in other words: the Iron Dome.
The Israeli delegation and CIA director William Burns have left Cairo after the latest round of talks aimed at reaching a truce and the release of hostages in Gaza, two Egyptian security sources have told Reuters.
We earlier reported that the Hamas delegation left Cairo and is en route to Doha, Qatar, according to Hamas’s political bureau.
Meanwhile, thousands protest the Israeli Songfestival in Sweden.
Israel undertaking a major Rafah operation will not advance the objective of both Washington and Tel Aviv of defeating the Hamas Palestinian terrorist group in Gaza, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said.
“Smashing into Rafah, in his view, will not advance that objective,” Kirby said in a briefing with reporters.
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