Netanyahu Orders Military to Plan for Civilian Evacuations of Rafah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that he has ordered his military to prepare a plan to evacuate civilians from the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah ahead of an expected ground invasion.
"It is impossible to achieve the goal of the war of eliminating Hamas by leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah," he said in a statement. "On the contrary, it is clear that intense activity in Rafah requires