The Israeli military says it will soon have achieved its aims in the offensive in Rafah. Half of the combat units of the the militant Palestinian organization, which governed Gaza prior to the war that broke out in October, have been destroyed, the army said. Some 60-70% of the territory of the city in the southern Gaza Strip is under the “operational control” of Israeli troops, the army said on Monday. It would only take a few more weeks before the military operation in the city is completed, the army said. Israel’s army launched the operation in Rafah, which lies on the border with Egypt, at…