After a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated Washington’s rejection of Israel’s planned military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. “We share Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas which is responsible for the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Blinken said before his departure. But he added: “A major military ground operation in Rafah is not the way to do it. It risks killing more civilians, it risks wreaking greater havoc with the provision of humanitarian assistance. It risks further iso…