Rafah

The Biden administration plans to provide Israel with $1 billion worth of weapons and ammunition, including $700 million for tank ammunition, $500 million for tactical vehicles, and $60 million for mortar shells.

Almost 450,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah in southern Gaza Strip in one week.

Israel and Egypt traded accusations over the blocking of humanitarian aid to Gaza at the Rafah crossing, with Israel calling on Egypt to reopen the crossing and Egypt condemning Israel's attempts to shift blame for the crisis.

The White House does not consider the killing of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel during the war with Hamas to be genocide and condemns attacks on humanitarian aid convoys.

According to U. S. officials, Israel has concentrated enough troops on the outskirts of Rafah to potentially launch a full-scale ground operation in the coming days, despite the Biden administration's warnings against such an invasion.

Biden said that a truce in Gaza could begin as early as tomorrow if Hamas releases the hostages it is holding. In turn, Hamas accuses Netanyahu of obstructing the ceasefire talks and using them as a cover for an attack on Rafah.

The United States offers Israel intelligence and humanitarian assistance to prevent a full-scale invasion of Rafah in Gaza, where 1. 3 million Palestinians have taken refuge.

For 3 days, humanitarian aid was not allowed to enter the Gaza Strip through the southern checkpoints.

Israel's military cabinet approved a limited expansion of the IDF's operation in Rafah, Gaza, so as not to anger the Biden administration, and instructed hostage negotiators to prepare a new proposal for a potential deal.

Israel will continue its operation against Hamas in Rafah and other places in the Gaza Strip, despite US warnings to stop arms supplies.

Israel shelled the Rafah area of Gaza, killing a senior commander of the Islamic terrorist group al-Mujahideen Brigades and several civilians.

Hamas refuses to make further compromises on the terms of the ceasefire with Israel, despite ongoing talks in Cairo aimed at halting Israel's offensive in Gaza.

Biden threatens to cut off arms supplies to Israel if it enters Rafah and uses U. S.-supplied weapons against civilians.

In Cairo, negotiations on a truce between Israel and Hamas resumed with the participation of all parties, including representatives of Qatar, the United States and Egypt, aimed at agreeing on the terms of a ceasefire in the seven-month war in the Gaza Strip.

The U. S. suspends arms shipments to Israel over fears of a possible invasion of Rafah in Gaza.

Oil prices rose after Israel struck Rafah in Gaza.

Israel has taken control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing on the border between Gaza and Egypt, seizing a key road and striking more than 50 Hamas targets overnight.

According to reports, Israeli air strikes in Rafah (Gaza) killed at least 8 Palestinians and injured several others.

Israeli tanks entered the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, coming within 200 meters of the Egyptian border, despite Hamas's acceptance of a ceasefire offer from Egypt and Qatar.

The Israeli Defense Forces announced "targeted" strikes on Hamas targets in eastern Rafah as part of an active operation against the terrorist organization.

Hamas accepts Egypt and Qatar's ceasefire proposal to end the war with Israel, but Jerusalem said it does not support the deal proposed by Cairo.

Israel has called on civilians to evacuate parts of Rafah, Gaza Strip, as it prepares for a potential offensive against Hamas militants.

The United States has suspended the supply of ammunition to Israel because of a possible Israeli invasion of Rafah in Gaza.

Israel has closed the Kerem Shalom border crossing, the main entry point for humanitarian aid to Gaza, after Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza.

Netanyahu has rejected ending the war with Hamas as part of a potential hostage deal, insisting on toppling Hamas and continuing the Rafah operation despite US opposition.

The UN warns that an imminent Israeli ground operation in Rafah, Gaza, will lead to more civilian casualties and hamper humanitarian aid efforts.

Egypt proposes a ceasefire plan that provides for a mutual exchange of hostages and prisoners between Hamas and Israel, as well as a three-week truce and possible long-term negotiations.

The pro-Palestinian group Palestine Legal has filed a federal lawsuit against Columbia University over the mass arrests of anti-war protesters who opposed the war in Gaza.

Israel is preparing for a large-scale ground offensive on the city of Rafah in Gaza, which remains the last bastion of Hamas, coordinating its actions with Egypt to avoid a humanitarian crisis.

Israel is preparing for a large-scale ground offensive on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and warns of the evacuation of Palestinian civilians, planning to strike four Hamas battalions believed to be based in the city.