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Source: https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/event-security190324
Netanyahu: "We Have a Debate with the Americans over the Need to Enter Rafah, Not over the Need to Eliminate Hamas"
(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday: "We have a debate with the Americans over the need to enter Rafah, not over the need to eliminate Hamas....We see no way to eliminate Hamas militarily without destroying these remaining battalions. We are determined to do this." "Out of respect for the President, we agreed on a way in which they can present us with their ideas, especially on the humanitarian side. Of course, we fully share this desire to facilitate an orderly exit of the population and the providing of humanitarian aid to the civilian population. We have been doing this since the beginning of the war. However, I made it as clear as possible to the President that we are determined to complete the elimination of these battalions in Rafah, and there is no way to do this without a ground incursion." (Prime Minister's Office