LONDON European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has expressed her opposition to a planned military operation in Rafah, a southern Gaza Strip city packed with 1.4 million displaced Palestinians. "It would be "completely unacceptable" for Israel to attack Rafah, von der Leyen told a debate on Monday co-hosted by POLITICO in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The commission president, running for a second term, recalled that she had visited Rafah and said the situation there is "unbearable"