Netanyahu says will 'fight with our fingernails' after US threat to curb arms
Netanyahu says will ‘fight with our fingernails’ after US threat to curb arms
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday (local time) asserted that the country’s military was stronger than in the previous decades and said it would “fight with our fingernails” if required.
His response served as a veiled rebuff to US President Joe Biden’s warning that his administration could withhold arms supplies if Israel proceeded with its offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Despite international objection, Israel on May 6 went ahead with its offensive in Rafah, the last stronghold of Hamas and where over a million people, who fled other parts of Gaza during the war triggered by Hamas’s cross-border attack on October 7 last year, are residing in the southern city.