Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu ‘hurting Israel more than helping’ it, says Biden

In MSNBC interview US president says Rafah offensive would be be a ‘red line’ but he would not cut off weapons funding

Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, said the US president, Joe Biden, wants to see a plan to evacuate Palestinians before a major Israeli military offensive in Rafah.

“We evacuated more than a million Palestinians from north to south and now we have to move them west and to other areas before the Rafah operation,” he said in remarks quoted by Israeli public radio.