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Full-scale Rafah operation risks ‘further isolating Israel’: Blinken

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A full-scale ground offensive against Gaza’s Rafah would further isolate Israel internationally, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.

“We share Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas… A major military ground operation in Rafah is not the way to do it,” he told reporters in Israel. “It risks further isolating Israel around the world.”

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