Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the country’s army to prepare for an offensive on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. “It is impossible to achieve the goal of the war of eliminating Hamas by leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah,” he said. “It is clear that intense activity in Rafah requires that civilians evacuate the areas of combat – a combined plan for evacuating the population and destroying the battalions,” he said in a statement issued by the prime minister’s office on Friday. A military offensive in Rafah, located in the southernmost part of Gaza on the…