Netanyahu challenges the US and orders the evacuation of Rafah - Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the defense apparatus to prepare plans to evacuate civilians from the Rafah area in the south of the Strip.

The Israeli prime minister therefore continues in the face of the obvious intolerance if not the open opposition of American President Joe Biden, who defined Israel's response to the October 7 attacks as "exaggerated" Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant informed his US counterpart Lloyd Austin last night.