Even though fighting continues in Khan Younis, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised that the Rafah operation will take place and that more than 1.4 million people who have been displaced will be relocated to the north to Khan Younis.
Eight Palestinians killed in Israeli armed force strikes on homes in the al-Zawaida and Deir el-Balah outcast camps, with handfuls more injured. Hamas political boss says the “opposition won’t consent to anything less” than an enduring truce, troop withdrawal, and end to the “complete attack” of Gaza. US President Biden says he trusts Israel “won’t make any enormous land attack” of Rafah, and “my assumption [is] that won’t occur”. Israel’s assaults on Gaza have killed something like 28,858 Palestinians and injured 68,667 since October 7. 1,139 people have died in Israel as a result of the attacks on October 7 that were led by Hamas.
