Biden’s government, working quickly to prevent a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance in an effort to persuade it to hold back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military to point out the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers.
Further, American officials have also offered to help provide thousands of shelters so Israel can build tents in cities to help with the construction of delivery systems for food, water, and medicine. This can lead to Palestinians evacuated from Rafah having a habitable place to live, said the officials.
According to some reports, President Biden and his senior aides have been making such offers over the past several weeks. This is with the hopes that they will persuade Israel to conduct a limited and targeted operation in the southern Gaza city.
There over 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering after fleeing there from other parts of Gaza under Israeli orders. Israel has vowed to go into Rafah with extreme force and this week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a number of steps that raised fears at the White House that the long-promised invasion could be materializing.
The United States government has offered Israel with intelligence throughout the seven-month war. However, senior Biden aides are now seeking to convince Israeli officials that they can destroy the remaining Hamas battalions in Rafah. With the help of more targeted strikes, the United States can assist, by identifying senior Hamas leaders, without a full-scale invasion.
U.S. administrative officials, including experts from the U.S. Agency for International Development, have told Israel that it will take a few months to safely relocate thousands of Palestinians who are now living in pathetic and unsanitary conditions in Rafah. However, Israeli officials disagree with that assessment.
On the other hand, Biden aides are stressing to their Israeli counterparts that Palestinians cannot simply be moved to barren or bombarded parts of Gaza, but that Israel must provide basic infrastructure to survive including shelter, food, water, medicine, and other necessities so that those who are evacuated will have livable conditions and not simply be exposed to additional famine or disease.
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