Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 30th May. The White House said on Wednesday that the US has no plans to change its Israel policy after a deadly airstrike on Rafah but it is closely watching an Israeli investigation on the incident.
Palestinian medics on Tuesday said dozens of people had died in fresh Israeli attacks on Rafah 2 days after 45 people were reportedly killed in an airstrike was deplored by international community.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said the US was waiting for further investigations from Israel into the attacks.
“The Israelis are going to investigate it. We’re going to be taking great interest in what they find in that investigation. And we’ll see where it goes from there,” Kirby said.
He said that the US did not consider the attacks as a major military or major ground operation at this point.
“But again, we’re watching it very closely.”
Kirby said the US continued to believe that a large-scale ground offensive in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip was wrong.
“We still don’t want to see the Israelis as we say smash into Rafah with large units over over over large pieces of territory. We still believe that and we haven’t seen that at this point. But we’re going to be watching this of course very, very closely.”
Joe Biden “said that should that occur, then it might make him have to make different decisions in terms of support”, Kirby added.
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