Experts say that the Israeli PM will likely prioritise domestic alliances over US pressure and press ahead with its plans to invade Rafah despite growing international pressure.
“Netanyahu will take a gamble and proceed with the Rafah operation, expecting the Biden administration to yield and resume arms supplies,” says, Ashok Swain, a professor of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University. / Photo: Reuters
Ashok Swain, a professor of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University in Sweden, feels that the US move will “likely push Netanyahu further towards his allies in the far-right”. “He is likely to listen to his right-wingers, not to the US,” the security expert said, adding that Netanyahu’s “own political survival” was closely tied to the far-right.
Since October 7, Israel has killed nearly 35,000 people — most of them children and women — in Gaza and devastated the besieged enclave. Hundreds of thousands of people, evicted from their homes, are living in tents in squalid conditions, struggling to find food and water amid an Israeli blockade of aid into Gaza.
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