U.S. Objects To An IDF Offensive In Rafah; Germany To Support Red Sea Operation

Top stories: 1) The IDF deepens its operational successes, as it hunts for Hamas leaders in the southern Gaza Strip. 2) The Biden Administration ratchets-up pressure on Jerusalem to avoid further deepening its ground maneuver into the last bastion of the Islamist Hamas. 3) Germany sends a frigate to the Red Sea – as the United States and United Kingdom, with support of Canada, Australia and the Netherlands, intensifying near-daily aerial strikes against the Iranian-proxy Ansar-Allah in Yemen.