Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer said that the Israeli occupation army will eventually invade the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and defeat the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) "even if the entire world becomes against Israel, including the United States."

Dermer said in an American audio program (podcast) broadcast over the Internet: “We will enter and finish this mission, and anyone who does not understand this does not understand that the existential nerve of the Jews has been pressed” in the Al-Aqsa flood battle on the seventh of last October.

The far-right minister added: "This will happen even if Israel has to fight alone. Even if the whole world turns against Israel, including the United States, we will fight until we win the battle."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows his determination to carry out a military operation in Rafah, claiming that achieving the goal of eliminating Hamas will not be achieved without this.

“We are very confident that we can do this in an effective way not only from a military perspective, but also from a humanitarian aspect,” Dermer said. “They have less confidence in our ability to do this,” he added.

Dermer, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, a member of the war cabinet and one of Netanyahu's close associates, is scheduled to travel with National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi to Washington next week to hear the Biden administration's concerns that such an invasion would lead to the fall of more... Civilian casualties at a time when famine and disease are spreading in Gaza.

Dermer said leaving the Islamists out would invite open attacks against Israel from across the region, “which is why the determination to push them out is so strong, even if it leads to a potential breach of relations with the United States.”

Dermer said that there are 4 Hamas brigades intact in Rafah, supported by militants who have withdrawn from other parts of Gaza, which represents 25% of the group’s strength before the war.

Emphasizing that they will not leave a quarter of Hamas fighters there, “We are going to Rafah because we have to.”

Several countries warned Israel of the consequences of invading Rafah, due to its catastrophic repercussions on the city, which represents the last refuge for the Palestinians after the scale of bombing, destruction and killing caused by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip. As a result, it faces accusations of committing genocide before the International Court of Justice.

Rafah Governorate currently houses more than 1,400,000 Palestinians, including 1,300,000 who were displaced from other governorates under the weight of violent bombardment with the intention of forcing them to evacuate their areas, starting in the north of the Gaza Strip in particular.