Hamas says Israel will not face a ‘picnic’ in Rafah

A senior Hamas official warned that the group will not agree to a ceasefire if Israel continues its offensive on Rafah, saying the Israeli military will not face "a picnic" there.

“We affirm that the military operation in Rafah, if carried out by Israel, will not be a picnic for the Israeli army,” Osama Hamdan said at a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon.

He also said the group would not agree to Israel or another organisation controlling the Rafah border crossing, which Israel seized Monday night.

“The Rafah Crossing was and will remain a purely Egyptian-Palestinian crossing,” he said