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Netanyahu defies ally Joe Biden and says Israel will ‘fight with fingernails’ if US stops arms supplies

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (AP Photo)

Namita Singh

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is willing to “stand alone” and “fight with our fingernails” in the war on Gaza, a thinly-veiled rebuttal to ally Joe Biden’s warning that the US could stop supplying him with arms.

The US president has urged Mr Netanyahu not to go ahead with a planned ground invasion of Rafah, where over 1.3 million Palestinians have sought refuge from Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip.