American and Israeli officials are offering increasingly blunt assessments about Hamas’s resilience and Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to plan for postwar Gaza.
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Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over his lack of a postwar plan for Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced increasing pressure from critics at home and allies abroad, especially the United States, to present a plan for governance, security and rebuilding of Gaza.
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Biden advances $1 billion in arms for Israel amid Rafah tensions
The decision underscores that President Biden remains intent on supplying arms to Israel despite pausing a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs last week.
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Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds
Some 700,000 Palestinians – a majority of the prewar population – fled or were driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s establishment.
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Opinion: Time for Biden to show some courage regarding Gaza
Tongue-lashings won’t produce a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
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Misery deepens in Gaza’s Rafah as Israeli troops press operation
The United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees said 360,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah over the past week, out of 1.3 million who were sheltering there before the operation began.
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UK foreign secretary says halting arms sales to Israel would only strengthen Hamas
President Biden has said that his government will stop supplying weapons and artillery to Israel if its forces launch an all-out assault on Rafah.
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As Israel pushes deeper into Rafah, Hamas regroups elsewhere in ungoverned Gaza
U.S. secretary of state reiterated opposition to a major military assault on Rafah, telling CBS that Israel would ‘be left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency’ without an exit from Gaza and postwar governance plan.
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U.S. offers Israel intelligence, supplies in effort to avoid Rafah invasion
President Biden and his senior aides have been making such offers over the last several weeks in hopes they will persuade Israel to conduct a more limited and targeted operation in the southern Gaza city.
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Israel orders new evacuations in Gaza’s last refuge of Rafah as it expands military offensive
The United Nations and others have warned that Israel’s planned full-scale Rafah invasion would cripple humanitarian operations and cause a disastrous surge in civilian casualties.