(JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the Jewish state cannot defeat the Hamas terror organisation without going into and destroying the battalions in Rafah.
“I told him that I hope we would do this with US support but if necessary, we will do it alone,” Netanyahu said, after the two met privately on Friday in the Kirya in Tel Aviv, in a translation his office provided of his Hebrew statement.
Blinken is also slated to meet today with the expanded War Cabinet, according to Netanyahu’s office.
A schedule that the US State Department released stated that Blinken and Netanyahu were slated to meet at 11.15am Israel time, and that the broader meeting with the War Cabinet was called for 12.10pm local time.
