GAZA: Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday (May 9), Palestinian residents said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed US President Joe Biden's threat to
Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday , Palestinian residents said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuto withhold weapons from Israel if it assaults the southern Gaza city.
In Gaza, Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad said their fighters fired anti-tank rockets and mortars at Israeli tanks massed on the eastern outskirts of the city. Among the dead was a senior commander of the militant Al-Mujahedeen Brigades and his family, and the family of another group leader, said medics, relatives and the group.
Israel's assault on Gaza has killed nearly 35,000 Palestinians and wounded nearly 80,000, most of them civilians, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said. "It puts us in a corner because we have to deal with Rafah one way or the other," Ambassador Michael Herzog told a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace webinar.
Hamas blames Israel for the lack of agreement, and its Al-Aqsa TV's Telegram account said the group would not make any concessions beyond those in the proposal it had accepted.US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Washington continued to engage with Israel on amendments to a ceasefire proposal, adding work to finalise the text of an agreement was"incredibly difficult".
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