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Potential Harris presidency could turn the screws on Israel
David Isaac
July 22, 2024

…Later in March, Harris opposed Israel’s plan to invade Rafah, the last stronghold of Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip, although not doing so would have enabled the terror group to survive. “We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” she told ABC News. “Let me tell you something. I have studied the maps. There’s nowhere for those folks to go, and we’re looking at about 1.5 million people in Rafah who are there because they were told to go there, most of them,” she said. Harris’s assessment turned out to be wrong, as 900,000 Gazans evacuated Rafah within one week from the time Israel issued its first evacuation order for the city on May 6. READ MORE