According to Xinhua News Agency, Jerusalem, February 11 According to Israeli sources and the White House, Biden of the United States asked Israel to ensure the safety of local people before launching a ground operation in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, when communicating with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the 11th.
An Israeli *** told Xinhua News Agency on the 11th that the atmosphere of the phone call between Netanyahu and Biden was "good", and the two sides mainly talked about the release of detained Israelis and Israel's military plans in Rafah.
According to a statement issued by the White House on the 11th, Biden told Netanyahu in the phone call that "Israel should not carry out military operations in Rafah" without a "credible and viable plan" to ensure the safety of the approximately 1 million people who have taken refuge in Rafah. Biden also called for urgent and concrete measures to increase humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians.
Netanyahu asked the Israeli defense forces and security services on the 9th to develop a plan for a ground operation in Rafah. Netanyahu said in an interview with ABC on the 10th that Israel's failure to enter Rafah to carry out ground operations means "defeat". The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said on the 11th that Israel's ground offensive against Rafah meant "the breakdown of any negotiations on an agreement to exchange detainees." (Reporter Lu Yingxu Zhang Tianlang).
Edited by Xin Jing.