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Monday, April 8, 2024
Netanyahu: ‘There is a date’ for IDF to enter Rafah, no victory unless we operate there
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Still from a video statement on the war in Gaza by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 8, 2024. (Screenshot, GPO)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that “there is a date” for IDF troops to go into Rafah, and repeats in a video statement that there is no victory without an operation in the southern city.
He also says that he received a detailed update on the talks in Cairo.
“We are working to achieve our goals all the time,” Netanyahu says, “primarily releasing all our hostages and achieving total victory over Hamas.