Forced to wait in a tent. I feel helpless, he says. The world is powerless to open the border. The hospitals here can no longer help me. Just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israels sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. Israel insists its operation is limited. But new images of tanks massing on the border earlier this week have raised fears that rafah s Densely Populated Centre could soon be attacked in defiance of washington. Translation if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. I have already said that, if necessary, we will fight with our nails. Last night, a rare warning from President Biden an all out assault will have consequences. They go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. For one former israeli Prime Minister, this is a significant moment the current government squande
Benjamin netanyahu has said he hopes to overcome his differences Withjoe Biden but vowed to press ahead with a Military Assault on rafah. Mr netanyahu was speaking to us media after President Biden confirmed that the us had withheld a delivery of munitions and could halt more shipments if Israeli Forces attack hamas in rafah, a densely populated city in the gaza strip. Mr netanyahu said israel had to defeat hamas in rafah. Paul adams sent this report from jerusalem. Haitham is trapped. After three operations for a bullet wound that punctured his lung, he needs treatment abroad. All set to leave until israel captured and closed the rafah crossing. Forced to wait in a tent. I feel helpless, he says. The world is powerless to open the border. The hospitals here can no longer help me. Just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israels sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. Israel insists its operation
After hamas operatives. But the relationship between america and israel, is more strained now, than at any time for a generation. Paul adams sent this report from jerusalem. Haitham is trapped. After three operations for a bullet wound that punctured his lung, he needs treatment abroad. All set to leave until israel captured and closed the rafah crossing. Forced to wait in a tent. I feel helpless, he says. The world is powerless to open the border. The hospitals here can no longer help me. Just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israels sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. Israel insists its operation is limited. But new images of tanks massing on the border earlier this week have raised fears that rafah s Densely Populated Centre could soon be attacked in defiance of washington. Translation if we i have to stand alone, we will stand alone. I have already said that, if necessary, we will fight