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Israeli Prime Minister <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/benjamin-netanyahu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>, ahead of surgery for a hernia on Sunday, vowed that Israel would invade Rafah, despite twin pressures from Ramadan and Washington.  Netanyahu, 74, said he had approved the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/israels-netanyahu-rebuffs-us-plea-halt-rafah-offensive-tensions-rise-ahead-washington-talks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IDF’s "operational plan" for Rafah</a>, saying the force was "prepared for the evacuation of the civilian population and for the provision of humanitarian assistance." "This is the right thing both operationally and internationally," he said. "This will take time but it will be done. We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas battalions</a> there for one simple reason: There is no victory without entering Rafah and there is no victory without eliminating the Hamas battalions there." The comments came after the Israeli leader met with the families of the hostages still in Gaza. He rejected accusations that he was delaying their release. "Those who say I am not doing everything to return the hostages are wrong and misleading, and those who know the truth and still repeating this lie are causing unnecessary grief to the families of the hostages," he said.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/world-health-organization-silent-hamas-use-gaza-hospital-terror-hq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SILENT OVER HAMAS' USE OF GAZA HOSPITAL AS TERROR HQ</a>Netanyahu alleged that Israel has "relaxed" its position in negotiations while Hamas has "hardened" theirs. "Despite all the difficulty involved, negotiations must be conducted calmly and with level-headed determination," he said. "This is the only way to return hostages." Netanyahu has kept a full schedule throughout Israel's nearly six-month-long war against Hamas. A hernia was discovered during a routine checkup, but his doctors have said he is otherwise in good health. Doctors acknowledged last year that he had concealed a long-known heart problem after they implanted a pacemaker.Israeli society was broadly united immediately after Oct. 7, when Hamas killed some 1,200 people during a cross-border attack and took 250 others hostage. Nearly six months of conflict have renewed divisions over the leadership of Netanyahu, though the country remains largely in favor of the war.Thousands of Israelis gathered outside the parliament building in Jerusalem on Sunday, marking the largest anti-government demonstration since the war began. They urged the government to reach a cease-fire deal to free dozens of hostages held by the Hamas militant group in Gaza and to hold early elections.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/pro-palestinian-protesters-disrupt-berkeley-city-council-meeting-holocaust-remembrance-vote-end-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS DISRUPT BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL MEETING, HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE VOTE: ‘END ISRAEL’</a>Roughly half the hostages in Gaza were released during a weeklong cease-fire in November. But attempts by international mediators to bring home the remaining hostages have failed. Talks resumed on Sunday with little expectation of a breakthrough.Netanyahu has said there can be no victory without a military ground offensive in Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than half of the territory's population of 2.3 million now shelters after fleeing fighting elsewhere. Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry said Sunday that more than  32,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war. The ministry's count does not differentiate between civilians and fighters, but it has said that women and children make up around two-thirds of those killed.Israel has disputed these figures, saying that more than one-third of the dead are militants, and it blames Hamas for civilian casualties because the group operates in residential areas.Fox News' Yael Rotem-Kuriel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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content: 'Israeli Prime Minister <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/benjamin-netanyahu"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>, ahead of surgery for a hernia
 on Sunday, vowed that Israel would invade Rafah, despite twin pressures from Ramadan
 and Washington.  Netanyahu, 74, said he had approved the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/israels-netanyahu-rebuffs-us-plea-halt-rafah-offensive-tensions-rise-ahead-washington-talks"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">IDF’s "operational plan" for Rafah</a>, saying the
 force was "prepared for the evacuation of the civilian population and for the provision
 of humanitarian assistance." "This is the right thing both operationally
 and internationally," he said. "This will take time but it will be done. We will
 enter Rafah and we will eliminate the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/terrorism"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas battalions</a> there for one simple reason:
 There is no victory without entering Rafah and there is no victory without eliminating
 the Hamas battalions there." The comments came after the Israeli leader met
 with the families of the hostages still in Gaza. He rejected accusations that he
 was delaying their release. "Those who say I am not doing everything to return
 the hostages are wrong and misleading, and those who know the truth and still repeating
 this lie are causing unnecessary grief to the families of the hostages," he said.<a
 href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/world-health-organization-silent-hamas-use-gaza-hospital-terror-hq"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SILENT OVER HAMAS''
 USE OF GAZA HOSPITAL AS TERROR HQ</a>Netanyahu alleged that Israel
 has "relaxed" its position in negotiations while Hamas has "hardened" theirs. "Despite
 all the difficulty involved, negotiations must be conducted calmly and with level-headed
 determination," he said. "This is the only way to return hostages." Netanyahu
 has kept a full schedule throughout Israel''s nearly six-month-long war against
 Hamas. A hernia was discovered during a routine checkup, but his doctors have said
 he is otherwise in good health. Doctors acknowledged last year that he had concealed
 a long-known heart problem after they implanted a pacemaker.Israeli society
 was broadly united immediately after Oct. 7, when Hamas killed some 1,200 people
 during a cross-border attack and took 250 others hostage. Nearly six months of conflict
 have renewed divisions over the leadership of Netanyahu, though the country remains
 largely in favor of the war.Thousands of Israelis gathered outside the parliament
 building in Jerusalem on Sunday, marking the largest anti-government demonstration
 since the war began. They urged the government to reach a cease-fire deal to free
 dozens of hostages held by the Hamas militant group in Gaza and to hold early elections.<a
 href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/pro-palestinian-protesters-disrupt-berkeley-city-council-meeting-holocaust-remembrance-vote-end-israel"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS DISRUPT BERKELEY
 CITY COUNCIL MEETING, HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE VOTE: ‘END ISRAEL’</a>Roughly
 half the hostages in Gaza were released during a weeklong cease-fire in November.
 But attempts by international mediators to bring home the remaining hostages have
 failed. Talks resumed on Sunday with little expectation of a breakthrough.Netanyahu
 has said there can be no victory without a military ground offensive in Rafah, the
 southern Gaza city where more than half of the territory''s population of 2.3 million
 now shelters after fleeing fighting elsewhere. Gaza''s Hamas-run Health Ministry
 said Sunday that more than  32,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start
 of the war. The ministry''s count does not differentiate between civilians and fighters,
 but it has said that women and children make up around two-thirds of those killed.Israel
 has disputed these figures, saying that more than one-third of the dead are militants,
 and it blames Hamas for civilian casualties because the group operates in residential
 areas.Fox News'' Yael Rotem-Kuriel and The Associated Press contributed
 to this report. '
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