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U.S. Will Not Withdraw Military Aid After Rafah Strike, Kirby Says
John F. Kirby, a White House spokesman, condemned the deadly Israeli airstrike in Rafah, but said that the attack was not enough to change U.S. policy.
So I just want to just right off the top, talk about these devastating images and reports coming out of Rafah over the weekend following an I.D.F. strike that killed dozens of innocent Palestinians, including children. We still don’t believe that a major ground operation in Rafah is warranted. We still don’t want to see the Israelis, as we say, smash into Rafah with large units over large pieces of territory. And we still believe that. And we haven’t seen that at this point. But we’re going to be watching this, of course, very, very closely. Maybe some people have forgotten what happened on the 7th of October, but we haven’t: 1,200 Israelis, innocent Israelis, slaughtered, mutilated, raped, tortured. And they’re living right next to that kind of threat — still a viable threat in Rafah, by the way. If you think Hamas is just gone, they’re not gone from Rafah or from Gaza. And if you think they’ve abandoned their genocidal intent towards the nation of Israel, think again. They haven’t. So Israel has every right to not want to live next to that kind of threat. And yes, we’re going to continue to provide them the capabilities to go after it.
U.S. Will Not Withdraw Military Aid After Rafah Strike, Kirby Says
John F. Kirby, a White House spokesman, condemned the deadly Israeli airstrike in Rafah, but said that the attack was not enough to change U.S. policy.
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