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US President Joe Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against plans to invade Rafah, the city where over one million Palestinians have sought safety and was designated as a ‘safe zone’ by the Israeli military. In the second warning in less than a week, in a phone call on Thursday Biden told the Israeli prime minister that a ground offensive should not go ahead unless there is “a credible and executable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the civilians in Rafah”, the White House said. On Friday morning in a post on X, Netanyahu said he rejected “international dictat…

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