{"id":49892,"date":"2024-03-26T17:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49892"},"modified":"2024-03-26T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:20:03","slug":"us-raises-concerns-on-rafah-offensive-with-israeli-defense-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49892","title":{"rendered":"US raises concerns on Rafah offensive with Israeli defense chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised US opposition to a major ground operation in Rafah with Israel&#8217;s defense minister on Monday, after a delegation to discuss Washington&#8217;s concerns was scrapped earlier in the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to send the delegation to Washington but cancelled it after the United States abstained on a UN Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate ceasefire during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>In his meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Washington, Blinken reiterated US &#8220;opposition to a major ground operation in Rafah,&#8221; State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Such a move &#8220;would further jeopardize the welfare of the more than 1.4 million Palestinian civilians sheltering there,&#8221; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu&#8217;s determination to launch a ground operation in Rafah, the city on Gaza&#8217;s southern border where most of the territory&#8217;s population is sheltering, has become a key point of contention.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken &#8220;underscored that alternatives exist to a major ground invasion that would both better ensure Israel&#8217;s security and protect Palestinian civilians,&#8221; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>The two additionally &#8220;discussed the need to immediately surge and sustain additional humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised US opposition to a major ground operation in Rafah with Israel&#8217;s defense minister on Monday, after a delegation to discuss Washington&#8217;s concerns was scrapped earlier in the day. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to send the delegation to Washington but cancelled it after the United States abstained on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[920],"class_list":["post-49892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-us-raises-concerns-on-rafah-offensive-with-israeli-defense-chief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}