Israeli PM Vows Ground Attack On Rafah “With Or Without” Deal

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday pledged to launch a ground attack on Rafah “with or without” a deal with Hamas.

Speaking in a meeting with families of hostages, Netanyahu said that Israel had begun the evacuation of Palestinian civilians from Rafah, according to his office.

“We will enter Rafah and eliminate Hamas battalions there, with or without a deal, to achieve the total victory,” he said.

Israel considers Rafah as Hamas’s last major stronghold in the Palestinian enclave.

Rafah is Gaza’s southernmost city, where about 1.2 million Palestinians have been seeking shelter from

The remarks were made as Israeli and Hamas negotiators were in Egyptian-brokered talks on a deal for a ceasefire for the nearly seven-month-long Gaza conflict that will secure the release of hostages.  (Xinhua/NAN)

GWG.ng reports that the assertions by the prime minister of Israel on Rafah came as it emerged that the Group of Seven (G7) leading Western industrialised nations are supporting an ambitious UN agreement to reduce plastics, a German minister said on Tuesday.

“As industrialised countries, we have a special obligation to curb the effects of the massive pollution crisis.

“As G7 countries, we are committed to reducing global plastic production and consumption,” German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke said at the meeting of the G7 climate, energy and environment ministers in Italy.

“The G7 also wants to rapidly ratify the UN Convention on the Protection of the High Seas.

“We depend on healthy oceans to combat the climate crisis, the pollution crisis and the crisis of species extinction.”

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