White House wants to see Netanyahu’s plan to attack Rafah – Washington Examiner

The White House has yet to review Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s plans to invade Rafah but “would welcome” seeing the specifics.

Netanyahu reportedly signed off on new attack plans on Friday, despite negotiations regarding a six-week ceasefire in Gaza between Israel, Hamas, and third-party nations, including the United States.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby briefed reporters on the latest developments surrounding the Gaza war on Friday.

“We certainly would welcome the opportunity to see it,” he explained when asked about Netanyahu’s potential offensive. “We can’t support a major offensive in Rafah that doesn’t also include a credible, achievable, executable plan to take care and to the safety and security of the more than a million Gazans that are seeking refuge in Rafah.”

“To move in right now in a major way without a proper accounting for all those people would as we’ve said, that’d be a disaster,” he continued. “We’re going to keep talking to the Israelis about this.”

Negotiators are meeting in Doha, Qatar, over the weekend to continue discussions about a ceasefire. The United States is not sending a delegation for this latest round of talks, yet Kirby claimed that the U.S. will still be involved in the negotiations.

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“We’re involved in all these conversations. The fact that we’re physically not going to have a delegation, that should not be taken as any kind of signal that this isn’t a serious positive move forward,” he explained. “We think it could be.”

You can watch Kirby’s comments in full below.

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