Welcome to the news hour. Today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netsunyahu said

his country would quote stand alone if necessary. A response to President

Biden's recent move to pause deliveries of some bombs to Israel. That decision has

created a possible turning point in the US-Israel relationship and the war in

Gaza with the fate of hostage negotiations in the balance.

Israel is now poised to expand its operation in Raffa a step the U.S. is warning Netanyahu not to take.

Nick Schifrin begins our coverage.

In southern Israel, tanks are masked and nearly ready for an assault.

They fire at Rafa, where ongoing airstrikes rip the roofs off homes,

toppled minarets, and killed victims who are so easy to carry,

the burden becomes all the heavier.

And President Biden is concerned an expanded military

operation would kill more Gazans like Yasun Hassan Mohana.

Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population

centers.

I made it clear that if they go into Rafa, they haven't gone on Rafa yet, If they go into Rafa, I'm not supplying the weapons that have

been used historically to deal with Rafa.

But Hamas fights from Rafa, including with mortars that last weekend killed four Israeli soldiers and blocked humanitarian aid.

Israel is determined to eliminate Hamas's final four battalions no matter what the US says.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today.

If we need to stand alone, we will stand alone.

I've said that if necessary, we will fight with our fingernails but we have much more than

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