Biden warns Israel against Rafah assault without protecting civilians | BBC News

US President Joe Biden has warned Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to launch a military operation on the city of Rafah in Gaza “without a credible and executable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the more than one million people sheltering there”.

Around 1.3m people, more than half of Gaza’s population, have taken refuge in and around Rafah. They have fled Israel’s ground offensive in other parts of Gaza. The United States has warned that a major Israeli offensive on Rafah could lead to a “bloodbath”.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Jeremy Bowen.

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[MsNADIA]

He is warning them and yet supplying them with weapons, go figure

[johnaddidi]

I love how the bbc never discusses the general public disgust nor the fact that the world is seeing us fund and arm a genocide

[chicken]

The world is a scary place, stay safe everyone..

[WTU]

I very much doubt old Joe could hold a coherent conversation with Netanyahu

[peregrineslim]

America is trying to escape legal responsibility for the massacre, not the massacre itself.

[mohmedhassan]

Israel has killed many civilians, including aid workers, journalists and hostages. More than 25, 000 Palestinians have lost their lives (mostly women and children).
Yasmin Porat survived October 7th and she stated that IDF killed Israeli captives (Haboker Hazeh radio program on 15 October 2023).
Israel bombed the third oldest church in the world (Gaza Greek Orthodox Church), civilian convoy, Rafah crossing, refugee camp etc. Israel used white phosphorus in civilian areas. Indiscriminate attacks are prohibited by the Geneva Conventions and customary international law.٥غاومح

[sundusalkindi]

While providing them with weapons. You both must be behind bars but sadly this world is so unfair.

[RHL]

So sad that humans suffering like that 😢

[JeffreyGoddin]

They killed the 6 year old girl and the medics attempting to save her. Shame. This is not the right way.

[seandaly]

He’s giving them guns??? Evil . Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸

[flesz_]

Bla bla
Meanwhile he's sending them money and weapons

[TheInfamousAlpha]

These people are despicable - Starmer OUT!!!

[chesterburnett]

Go to the south they said, you'll be safe they said.

[alfabravo]

How can a colony of Israel tell Israel what to do?

[FreedomLovingCanadianEH]

It was never about the hostages, it was always about land grab.

[daydreamer-ixbo]

The silence of the supporters of this onslaught, is telling as Netanyahu has now been identified as a tyrant. How sad, that a man who survived from a horrible genocide, is likely to have caused one.

[sihr]

Netanyahu must be terrified after being ‘warned’ 🙄

[alianpedia]

After the extinction, they'll say "Oops... we didn't know the level of destruction our government was committing... please forgive us for not stopping them sooner."
Americans and Israelis both.

[mohmedhassan]

Mark Regev said that they reduced the number of Israeli dead from 1400 to 1200, because 200 of the bodies were Hamas fighters. Many of the bodies were so badly burned that it has taken this long to identify about 500 of them. The burned and charred remains of people were probably caused by Hellfire missiles fired from IDF helicopters, you can see the effects on the many vehicles that were hit. In many instances Hamas fighters took hostages inside buildings, the IDF fired tank shells into the buildings, killing everyone. The IDF is responsible for many of the deaths of Israeli civilians, but obviously does not want that to become widely known. There is only one confirmed death of a baby (10 months old) that was shot, and so far no confirmed cases of rape غان

[Smelly.Vision]

Notice how the Palestinians have been driven slowly south, they are now on the border with Egypt. I wonder why?