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Two top Israeli officials criticised US President Joe Biden on Thursday for threatening to stop certain arms supplies to Israel if it invades the city of Rafah. “This is a difficult and very disappointing statement to hear from a president to whom we have been grateful since the beginning of the war,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said on public radio in Israel’s first reaction to Biden’s warning. Israel has defied international objections by sending in tanks and conducting “targeted raids” in the eastern areas of Rafah, causing tens of thousands of civilians to flee….

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