🚨 BREAKING: Drop Site’s Ryan Grim reports U.S. officials knew within hours that the Rafah explosion – which Netanyahu used to justify halting all Gaza aid and resuming airstrikes – was actually caused by an Israeli settler bulldozer running over unexploded ordnance, not a Hamas tunnel attack.
Despite that, Netanyahu blamed Hamas, suspended aid, and ordered new bombings.
After Washington told Israel it knew the truth, Netanyahu quietly announced he would reopen the crossings “in a few hours.”