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US warns Israel that Rafah invasion will jeopardise weapons supply as assault continues

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Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. Photo: Reuters

Jarrett Renshaw, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mohammad Salem

U.S. President Joe Biden vowed publicly for the first time to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces make a major invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza while negotiations in Cairo on a ceasefire plan for the enclave were set to continue on Thursday.

"I made it clear that if they go into Rafah, ... I’m not supplying the weapons," Biden, whose administration has repeatedly asked Israel for its plan to protect civilians in Rafah, told CNN in an interview on Wednesday.