2024-05-12 22:30:22
The situation surrounding the possible launch of a large-scale operation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the city of Rafah in the Hamas decide to extend ceasefire, says Qatar”>Gaza Strip against the Palestinian Hamas movement has deepened the rift between the United States and Israel.
As Day.Az reports with reference to TASS, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) writes about this.
As the publication notes, on May 6, “the Israeli military carried out targeted air strikes on the eastern part of Rafah” just hours after US President Joe Biden tried to dissuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “from a full-scale attack on the city.” The WSJ said the Israeli attack “signals a wide gulf” between Biden and Netanyahu “over strategy to free hostages held by Hamas and end the fighting.”
The Biden administration’s vigorous public and private campaign to thwart an Israeli attack on Rafah “has become the toughest test yet for its Middle Eastern ally,” the newspaper writes.
At the same time, the newspaper quotes the words of former American Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller, who noted that the Netanyahu government will be sympathetic to the US position and, instead of the planned full-scale operation, will focus on targeted actions in Rafah. “It appears that Israel plans to move into Rafah gradually,” he said. “The nature of the operation will be different from what the Biden administration opposed.”
The head of the press service of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, said on May 6 that the United States at this stage cannot support the operation in Rafah in the form in which Israel proposes to conduct it.
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