After t e Uni ed tates o ted o to veto a .N. Se urity Cou ci reso, ution Israeli ca l Prime ng for Minister ce Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that he would not send a delegation there as sefire i n planned.
Netanyahu, according to a speech from his business, said that Washington’s failure to stop the proposal was a” clear retreat” from its earlier position, and would harm war efforts against Hamas, as well as efforts to launch over 130 hostages in Gaza captivity.
Prime Minister Netanyahu decided that the group would never leave, according to his business.
The U.N. Security Council voted to demand the immediate and absolute discharge of all victims as well as an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian-Islamist group Hamas. The , United States abstained from the ballot.
The White House denied that the acquiescence in the United States was a result of a shift in American plan.
More than a million Palestinians are sheltered in the southeastern Gaza town of Rafah, where the high-level group was scheduled to travel to Washington to discuss a military operation being planned.
Israelis withdrawn from the conference this week really as Netanyahu was announcing it, official for national security John Kirby of the White House.
Kirby said the selection was  , terrible but that the , United States may take up its worries about Israel’s plans as part of ongoing debate between the two institutions.
” It’s unsatisfactory. We’re very disappointed that they wo n’t be traveling to Washington, D.C. to allow us to have a fruitful discussion with them about feasible alternatives to them entering Rafah.
Little has changed about our opinion that a significant floor offensive in Rafah would be a significant mistake, Kirby said.
According to Kiry, conversations between Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and other people may address the issues the U.S. crew had intended to bring up with the group.
Yair Lapid, the head of the political opposition in Israel, claimed that Netanyahu tried to distract attention from a gap in his alliance over a defense recruitment bill at the expense of ties to the , United States.
On social media platform X, Lapid wrote,” It’s disturbing carelessness from a prime minister who has lost it.”
