A senior US State Department official said on Friday that famine poses a danger and possibility, at least in some areas of the northern Gaza Strip.

He added, "Although it has not yet occurred in the areas of southern and central Gaza, it still poses a potential danger, attributing this to the limited number of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid at the present time, in addition to the difficulty of distribution capacity (in southern and central Gaza).

The official stressed that “the United States is strongly focused on mobilizing the efforts of the international community and partnerships to help the United Nations obtain additional trucks to assist Gaza,” stressing that the number of aid trucks distributed in southern and central Gaza is close to 200, and more are still needed.

As for the naval pier, the official indicated that the United States hopes to open the sea aid corridor between mid-to-late next April.

Regarding Rafah, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists on invading (perhaps after the end of the Eid al-Fitr holiday), the official said that the United States has reviewed some aspects of the “Israeli humanitarian plan” for its possible military attack on Rafah, but “a comprehensive attack has not yet been seen” from Before the American administration.

The United States opposes its ally Israel, which supplies it with all the weapons and ammunition it has used and uses in its ongoing war on Gaza for about 6 months, such an attack (which seems inevitable), saying that such an attack “without there being a clear plan to evacuate the 1.5 million people.” Citizens of those besieged in Rafah will cause great harm to civilians, most of whom have taken refuge in the city according to the instructions of the Israeli army.

Israel says it is planning to launch a ground attack on Rafah, in the far south of the Strip, indicating that it believes that most Hamas militants are taking shelter there.

It is noteworthy that during two days of meetings between the Israeli Defense Minister, Gallant, and senior officials in the White House and the Pentagon, discussions about the planned Israeli military operation in southern Gaza did not focus on how to stop it, but rather on how to protect civilians during the start of the operation, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal published Thursday.

The practical tone of the talks was marked by a departure from the tone of previous weeks, when senior American officials bluntly warned Israel against launching a comprehensive attack on Rafah - where more than a million displaced Palestinians have taken refuge - while the Israeli Prime Minister pledged to defy the administration to move forward.

According to experts, the operation (how) to invade Rafah lies at the heart of the growing dispute between Israeli and American political leaders. These tensions escalated on Monday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a visit by his senior aides to Washington to discuss American concerns about the planned attack according to the claims of the Israeli Prime Minister, who says there are 5 Hamas brigades in the city, and culminated in Netanyahu canceling the visit, in response to the United States abstention from voting on a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire while also demanding the release of the hostages.

More than five months after the war waged by Israel against Hamas, a global body concerned with food security warned in a report that famine was imminent in areas of Gaza, where more than three-quarters of the population were forced to leave their homes.