Israel's senior government and military officials plan to carry out a limited attack in Rafah, rather than a powerful attack as initially planned.

According to the Washington Post, US officials believe that this attack will cause less harm to civilians, and therefore US President Joe Biden is not expected to oppose it. Meanwhile, US officials believe that at least 800,000 Gazans have been evacuated from Rafah out of a population of 1.5 million who remained there.