Netanyahu agrees to send officials to Washington to discuss Rafah strategy [Video]

Israel will send a delegation to brief US officials on a planned offensive in Rafah after a phone call between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday.

Mr Sullivan told reporters at the daily White House press briefing that Mr Biden and Mr Netanyahu spoke about Israel’s ongoing campaign in Gaza and plans for an Israeli attack on Rafah. Administration officials, including Mr Biden, have said the US would not support such an offensive “without a credible plan” on the part of the Israelis.

He said Mr Biden “explained why he is so deeply concerned about the prospect of Israel conducting major military operations in Rafah” if such operations were “of the kind of conducted in Gaza City and Khan Yunus” in the months since …