Biden warns Netanyahu Rafah assault would be a ‘mistake’ • FRANCE 24 English

Biden warns Netanyahu Rafah assault would be a ‘mistake’ • FRANCE 24 English

I made growing signs of frustration between Joe Biden and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the pair held their first official telephone call in over a month on Monday the character of that call pushed back upon by the National Security adviser Jake Sullivan there had been rumors that it was quite

A tense call and that it ended abruptly uh Jake Sullivan pushed back on that and said that it was quote businesslike however one of the main focuses of that call was Israel’s plannned offensive into the southern Gaza town of Rafa where 1.5 million people are currently seeking Refuge uh the um Israelis agreed

To a Joe Biden suggestion that they send a delegation to Washington to hear Washington’s concerns Jake Sullivan said President Biden asked the prime minister to send a senior agency team composed of military intelligence and humanitarian officials to Washington in the coming days now it is understood that that team

Could be uh in place by the end of this week if not the beginning of next week and that no offensive into Gaza into the Rafa area will take place until the US concerns have been heard Jake Sullivan calling uh this next step a quote Natural Evolution of discussions uh

Between partners uh they it also came up about Chuck Schumer the top Democrat in the Senate comments about Netanyahu just a few days ago he called him a quote obstacle to peace and also said that fresh elections should be held uh that was uh brought up by Netanyahu we are

Told Jake Sullivan said that um the uh prime minister did raise concerns about a variety of things that came out in the American Press but he did not talk specifically about any one issue uh so the United States here seemingly taking a more active role uh in the Israeli uh

Military uh planning they say they’re not getting involved uh directly but rather as as in an advisory role uh also more discussed about humanitarian Aid into Gaza uh we are still expecting that humanitarian peer off the coast of Gaza to be constructed between the next 45 to

60 days although the US is hoping that will happen sooner than that

In their first official phone call in over a month, US President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday (March 18) that an Israeli military operation in Rafah would deepen anarchy in Gaza and they agreed that teams from each side would meet in Washington to discuss it. FRANCE 24’s Fraser Jackson tells us more from Washington, D.C. 
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