i made it clear that if they go
into rafah -- they haven't gone
in rafah yet -- if they go into
rafah, i'm not supplying the
weapons that have been used
historically to deal with rafah.
nick: but hamas fights from
rafah, including with mortars
that last weekend killed four
israeli soldiers and blocked
humanitarian aid.
israel is determined to
eliminate hamas' final four
battalions, no matter what the
u.s. says.
prime minister benjamin
netanyahu said today --
>> if we need to stand alone, we
will stand alone.
i have said that if necessary,
we will fight with our
fingernails.
but we have much more than
fingernails, and with that same
strength of spirit, with god's
help, together, we will win.
nick: the fighting has forced
some 80,000 gazans, many already
displaced, to flee rafah.
the main hospital is closed, its
rooms abandoned.
humanitarian aid shelves are
nearly bare, and fuel trucks are
stuck in egypt.
there is only one to two days
of fuel left, since israel
seized and closed the...