Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel can stand alone in case US halts arms shipments

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned his nation can ‘stand-alone’, hours after the US warned that it may halt arms shipments if a full-scale invasion of Rafah is ordered by the federal government in the upcoming days.

“If we have to … we are going to stand alone. I’ve mentioned that if essential we are going to combat with our fingernails,” he was quoted as saying by BBC.

“In the War of Independence 76 years in the past, we had been the few in opposition to the numerous,” he mentioned.

“We didn’t have weapons. There was an arms embargo on Israel, however with nice power of spirit, heroism and unity amongst us – we had been victorious,” Netanyahu mentioned.

Israel, in the meantime, has taken management and closed the Rafah crossing with Egypt.

Aiming to stop the entry of assist vans into the Gaza strip, Israeli demonstrators just lately blocked a street close to the desert city of Mitzpe Ramon.

Protesters there have been holding a sit-in and scattered rocks throughout the street to cease autos, together with assist vans, as they demand the return of Israeli captives nonetheless held in Gaza, reported Al Jazeera.

80,000 displaced from Rafah

Some 80,000 individuals have left Rafah since Monday amid persevering with Israeli bombardment in and round Gaza’s southernmost metropolis in a single day and into Thursday, UN humanitarians reported.

Most of these uprooted by Israeli navy evacuation orders in jap Rafah have already been displaced from different areas of Gaza; they’re now leaving with all the things they can carry “in autos, vans, (on) motorbikes and donkey carts”, in response to the UN company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

More than 47,500 individuals are estimated to have left their shelters in Rafah on Wednesday alone, UNRWA mentioned, with some households approaching the company’s shelters at Tel Sultan in addition to Al Mawasi in the west.

The World Food Programme’s (WFP) Director for Palestine Matthew Hollingworth mentioned in a put up on X on Thursday that the company’s most important warehouse “is now inaccessible”.

“No assist has entered from southern crossings in two days”, he added. There is just a single bakery nonetheless operational whereas provides of meals will final just one to 3 days.