The Israeli Kan channel quoted American officials as saying that US President Joe Biden has almost lost confidence in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and he also confirmed that there is no specific date yet to meet Netanyahu.

The channel added that officials confirmed that Netanyahu's procrastination regarding the relief file for Gaza residents harmed Israel.

For its part, American media quoted Biden as saying that there is no specific date yet for the meeting with Netanyahu, and that Biden currently has no plans to deliver a speech before the Israeli parliament (the Knesset).

The American Politico website also quoted officials as saying that Biden may decide to limit the transfer of weapons to Israel if it launches an operation that exposes more Palestinians to danger.

This comes at a time when Netanyahu escalated his statements regarding moving forward with his plans to invade Rafah (south of the Gaza Strip), where more than two million displaced Palestinians are trapped between starvation and bombing.

This came in defiance of the US President, who had previously warned that such an attack would be a “red line,” in addition to several international warnings against invading the city.

On the other hand, Netanyahu responded by saying that the “red line” for him was “not to repeat the attack of last October 7,” that is, the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation launched by the Palestinian resistance.

Earlier on Monday, the White House said that the president had made clear that there would be no military operation “unless there is a plan for the security of civilians” there.

This comes in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza, which has left tens of thousands of dead, wounded, and missing people - most of them children and women - and massive destruction to residential buildings and vital facilities, amid famine prevailing in the besieged Strip with the scarcity of aid entering.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies