UN officials and Biden have said an offensive in city, where about 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering, would lead to a \u2018bloodbath\u2019<\/p>\n
In a call Sunday with Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden told<\/a> the Israeli prime minister that Israel should not launch a military operation in Rafah \u201cwithout a credible and executable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the more than one million people sheltering there\u201d.<\/p>\n The call between the US president and Netanyahu<\/a> was the first between the two leaders since Biden<\/a> on Thursday used the phrase \u201cover the top\u201d to describe Israel\u2019s military strikes in Gaza<\/a> in response to the 7 October attack by Hamas.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UN officials and Biden have said an offensive in city, where about 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering, would lead to a \u2018bloodbath\u2019 In a call Sunday with Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden told the Israeli prime minister that Israel should not launch a military operation in Rafah \u201cwithout a credible and executable plan for ensuring the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}