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Netanyahu: IDF is ready to operate in Rafah, evacuate civilian population
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Speaking at a press conference in his Jerusalem office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the IDF is ready to operate in Rafah, to evacuate the civilian population and to distribute humanitarian aid.
“It’s the right thing to do operationally and internationally,” he says.
“It takes time, but it will be done,” Netanyahu adds, pledging that the Hamas battalions in the city will be eliminated. “There is no victory without it,” he says.
He praises the IDF’s ongoing operation against Hamas in Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital. “This is not what a hospital looks like anywhere in the world,” he says. “This is what a house of terrorism looks like.”