The European Union on Saturday expressed deep concern over reports that the Israeli military intends to take its battle against Hamas to the town of Rafah at Gaza’s border with Egypt where more than a million people have escaped the fighting. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned that the conflict is likely to spread throughout the region unless a ceasefire is agreed between Israel and Hamas, after US airstrikes hit dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Borrell said that around 1 million Palestinians “have been displaced p…