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Netanyahu Vows to Invade Rafah ‘With or Without’ Cease-Fire Deal [1]

['Damien Cave', 'Edward Wong', 'Adam Rasgon', 'Thomas Fuller']

Date: 2024-04-30

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel vowed anew on Tuesday to launch an invasion into the southern Gaza Strip, even as a renewed push for a cease-fire agreement was showing glimmers of a potential breakthrough.

After seven months of an Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the United States, Qatar and several other countries have been hoping to broker a cease-fire, and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is visiting the Middle East to press for an agreement.

But with Hamas arguing that any agreement should include an end to the war, and with right-wing politicians in Israel threatening to leave the government coalition if the long-planned incursion into the southern Gazan city of Rafah is delayed, Mr. Netanyahu said that Israel reserved the right to keep fighting.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/world/middleeast/netanyahu-invasion-rafah-cease-fire.html

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