Netanyahu Will Ignore Biden’s ‘Red Line’ Move Forward Attack Rafah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back at President Joe Biden after the American leader criticized the onslaught in Gaza. Netanyahu said he would order an attack on Rafah, and insisted his policies are popular among Israelis. While Biden said attacking Rafah was a “red line,” he restated that the US would never stop sending Israel weapons for “self-defense.”

In an interview with MSNBC on Saturday, Biden accused Netanyahu of “hurting Israel,” while Axios reported the White House was becoming “frustrated” with the PM’s “ungratefulness.”

Biden told MSNBC that if Israel attacked Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, it would cross a “red line” for Washington, but nonetheless added that he would also supply the weapons Israel needs for self-defense.

Tel Aviv claims its military actions in Gaza are a defensive response to the Hamas attack on October 7. “We’ll go there. We’re not going to leave. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is, that October 7 doesn’t happen again. Never happens again,” Netanyahu told Politico in an interview published on Sunday.