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Jerusalem, Dec 15 (EFE), (Camera: Pablo Duer).- The Brazilian Agency for Export and Investment Promotion (APEX) today opened an office in Jerusalem with the presence of President Jair Bolsonaro's son, who reiterated the controversial will of the Brazilian government to move its embassy to that city and recognize it as Israeli capital.FOOTAGE OF THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE BRAZILIAN COMMERCIAL OFFICE IN JERUSALEM AND SOUNDBITESTRANSLATIONS: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:"We have no better friends than the people and the government of Brazil and I want them to know that they have no better friends than the people and the government of Israel. So welcome friend, this is a great day for our friendship."Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil:"And he told me that for sure, as he promised, he will move the embassy to Jerusalem. We are studying carefully, because we don't want to do as other countries did, which later went backwards, we want the transfer to Jerusalem not only to be for Brazil but to be an example for the rest of Latin America."
The United States says it still opposes a major Israeli assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a date was set. With some 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah, "We have made clear to Israel that we think a full-scale military invasion of Rafah would have an enormously harmful effect on those civilians and that it would ultimately hurt Israel security," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Flag-waving protesters gather on Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street to demand early elections and a hostage deal, amid growing anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza. IMAGES
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tells reporters that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to send a team to Washington to discuss a potential military operation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. SOUNDBITE
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan briefs the press following a phone call between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu during which the US president told his Israeli counterpart that he is "deeply concerned" about Israel potentially conducting military operations in Rafah, adding, "Israel has not presented us or the world with a plan for how or where they would safely move those civilians." SOUNDBITE
An Israeli ground invasion of the city of Rafah at the southern end of the Gaza Strip would be a "mistake," US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says at the White House. SOUNDBITE
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