"Cannot support an operation in Rafah as it is currently envisioned": US
Rafah the way it is envisioned as of now.
«We've made quite clear our position on Rafah for some time, which is that we cannot support an operation in Rafah as it is currently envisioned. We have made clear — the Secretary made this clear in his conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli Government last week — that we have not seen a humanitarian plan that is credible and that is implementable,» State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a press briefing on Monday (local time).
Clarifying US' stance on Israel's ground offensive in Rafah, Miller said that it would not only increase the suffering of Palestinians, but also disrupt aid delivery.
«We believe a military operation in Rafah right now would dramatically increase the suffering of the Palestinian people, would lead to an increase in the loss of civilian life, and would dramatically disrupt the delivery of humanitarian assistance, all of which is coming through — I shouldn't say „all,“ but the great majority of which is coming through Kerem Shalom or Rafah and is being distributed inside the Rafah area,» the State Department spokesperson said.
«If you think about what it would do when you have people moving north to places where internal distribution lines are not currently set up and you're going to have to try to re-establish those in the middle of the conflict in Rafah, we think that would be very difficult, if not impossible, to do...we have made clear
