Blinken says Rafah offensive risks ‘further isolating’ Israel as UN rejects ceasefire resolution

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned Israel that an offensive on Rafah, the southern Gazan city sheltering more than one million people, would risk "further isolating" it. Speaking after a US-sponsored ceasefire resolution was vetoed on Friday by Russia and China at the UN Security Council, Mr Blinken said he had taken part in "candid conversations" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A military ground operation in Rafah "risks killing more civilians," the US secretary of state said as he departed Tel Aviv, his final stop in his sixth urgent trip to the region since the Israel-Hamas war...