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Senior US and Israeli officials have completed a virtual meeting to discuss the Biden administration’s alternative proposals to an Israeli military invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a US official has said.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House’s press secretary, said at a briefing before the meeting that the US has made its concerns known about any major ground operation in Rafah, the last relatively safe haven for more than a million displaced Palestinian civilians. She told reporters:
If they are going to move forward with a military operation, we have to have this conversation. We have to understand how they’re going to move forward.
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