Israel will move ahead with Rafah attack, war cabinet decides

Israel is moving ahead with its offensive on Rafah following a unanimous decision by the war cabinet, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said.

The statement said Israel needed to move ahead with the attack “in order to apply military pressure on Hamas, with the goal of making progress on freeing the hostages and the other war aims”.

The statement added that the Hamas ceasefire proposal was "far from Israel’s obligatory demands”.