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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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