The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues, and the main target of the Israeli military's operations in the Gaza Strip is the southern city of Rafah.
According to Reuters, on February 9, local time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that he had ordered the military to develop a dual plan, on the one hand, to start evacuating civilians from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, and on the other hand, to escalate military operations in Rafah to fight the remaining Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) fighters.
Palestinian ** Abbas responded on the 9th that the Israeli army's plan to escalate military operations in Rafah is to "expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip". Both Israel** and the United States are responsible for the consequences of this.
Rafah is the destination where large numbers of displaced Palestinians have been temporarily settled after a large number of Palestinians were forced to evacuate from the northern Gaza Strip.
Israel's offensive against Hamas continued, and on the 9th it also launched an air raid on the city of Rafah. Earlier, the Israeli army said that a large number of Hamas tunnels and shafts had been discovered in the city of Rafah, and that the Israeli army's military operation in the city of Rafah would not stop and could last for several months in the future.
Palestinians view the ruins of buildings in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, after Israeli airstrikes.
Recently, Israel has repeatedly threatened to escalate its military operations in Rafah, including large-scale ground operations and increased air strikes.
International aid agencies have warned that large numbers of civilians could be killed in the Israeli offensive. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said it did not know how long it would be able to work "in such a high-risk operation".
Under the pressure of the international community, the White House said on the 8th that if Israel does not consider the situation of civilians in the Gaza Strip, the United States will not support any military action in Rafah, and Biden even alleged that Israel's counterattack on Hamas was "excessive".