News about Rafah, Israel

Biden and Netanyahu discussed the U.S. concerns about a possible IDF operation in Rafah and the efforts to reach a hostage deal pic.twitter.com/FpoFyfxfCr

Senior Israeli officials: Preparations for entering Rafah continue. In any hostage deal, if there is one, Israel will not give up it's goals of the war.

#BREAKING: Israeli officials told an Egyptian delegation visiting Israel: the attemps now to reach a hostage deal is "the last chance" before it starts the Rafah operation. "We won't agree to the usuall attemps by Hamas to drag things, we will conduct an operation in Rafah"

BREAKING: Israel made it clear to Egypt on Friday that it it is ready to give one last chance to reach a hostage deal with Hamas, but if no progress is reached soon it will move forward with a ground invasion of Rafah, two senior Israeli officials told me