President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold military assistance for a major operation in Rafah should not undermine Israel‘s leverage in hostage negotiations with Hamas, U.S. officials insist.
“So it is just not our assessment — based on actually being in the middle of these talks and seeing how it’s happening, and what Hamas is actually demanding and what their incentive structure actually is,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said during a Thursday press briefing. “That’s just not how we see it.”
American and Israeli officials have engaged in an increasingly open disagreement about the wisdom and ethics of Israel conducting a major military operation in Rafah, a southern Gaza city where Hamas militants and hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians have sought safe haven from
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