German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned Israel against expanding its military operation in the Gaza Strip to include the southern city of Rafah. “We consider an offensive on Rafah … to be irresponsible,” Scholz said on Saturday at a talk show organized by the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) media group in Potsdam just outside Berlin. “We warn against this, and we do not believe that there is any concept that will ultimately lead to this happening without incredible human losses in terms of innocent civilians,” he said. Scholz also emphasized that Israel had the right to defend itself a…