The “battle of Rafah” in the south of the Gaza Strip is “decisive” for Israel, engaged in more than seven months of war against Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. This battle, launched on May 7, is “a fight which will decide many things in this campaign,” declared the Prime Minister, quoted in a press release, while addressing soldiers in the Rafah area. It does not target “only the remaining battalions” of Hamas, but also their “loopholes and supply routes”.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced earlier in a statement that additional troops would take part in ground fighting in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, where military operations “will intensify”.
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