Despite the international isolation that Israel finds itself mired in, and despite the tension and tension - which on the surface - has affected the relationship with the Biden administration, the primary sponsor of Israel and its war on Gaza, the Israeli government is moving forward in intensifying its invasion of the city of Rafah, the last refuge for more than a million Palestinians. They were forced to move from one place to another in the Gaza Strip according to the instructions of the occupation army since it launched its war on besieged Gaza more than seven months ago.

An American official, who requested to remain anonymous, said: “Despite the intensity of the battles and the huge amount of American weapons and ammunition that Israel used in Gaza, which caused almost complete destruction in Gaza and led to the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians, the Israeli Defense Forces were unable to defeat Hamas, nor did “The storming of Rafah is unlikely to achieve its stated goals.”

The Israeli occupation forces describe the city of Rafah in southern Gaza as “the last stronghold of the Hamas brigades,” and view the border area with Egypt as “a loose sieve that allows weapons and supplies to flow freely to Hamas.”

Israel began its attack on Rafah in the first week of May, which led to the displacement of about 900,000 citizens from Rafah so far, according to the United Nations.

US President Joe Biden has repeatedly stated over the past months that he has a red line against the Israeli military operation in Rafah, which is causing widespread destruction and death to Palestinian civilians. But the administration, so far, has not described the increasing Israeli military invasion in the southern Gaza Strip as crossing those lines drawn by Biden.

Seth Frantzman, an assistant resident fellow in Israel at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), one of the faces of the Israeli lobby in Washington, said in a statement to The Hill newspaper, which is concerned with US congressional affairs, that the Israeli army has increased the number of forces present in and around Rafah. Over two weeks since operations began in earnest.

Frantzman, who worked in the Israeli occupation army, added: “They are mainly moving along this very narrow area of land located along the border between Gaza and Egypt, which is about 8 miles from the border, and I think they have captured about 50 percent of it.”

“They are working in a narrow strip. I think this is intentional, so that they do not have to enter the more densely populated and populated areas” and suffer severe blows from Hamas fighters.

But the vast majority of the international community and humanitarian groups are sounding the alarm that ongoing Israeli military operations are endangering nearly a million Palestinians, displaced multiple times, and that humanitarian aid deliveries have not yet scaled up enough to meet the needs of the people.

“The claim that people in Gaza can move to ‘safe’ or ‘humanitarian’ areas is false. Every time, it puts civilian lives in grave danger,” Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the old agency providing relief to Palestine refugees, UNRWA, posted. On the social platform X.

He warned that 800,000 Palestinians were forced to flee, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.

“Gaza does not have any safe areas. There is no safe place. “No one is safe.”

On Friday, the International Court of Justice issued a ruling requiring Israel to stop its military operations in Rafah, amid fears of genocide against the Palestinians.

The International Court of Justice does not have an implementation mechanism, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously rejected international pressure to force him to withdraw from the military operations carried out by his country.

Netanyahu said: “No amount of pressure and any decision in any international forum will prevent Israel from defending itself against those who seek to destroy us.”

The statement came in response to the ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan, announcing earlier this week that he was seeking arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for “deliberate starvation” as a war crime.

Earlier this week, Ireland, Norway and Spain took a step to recognize Palestinian statehood, a move criticized by Israeli officials but welcomed by Palestinian advocates as strengthening their human rights.

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that "the two recognitions... contribute positively to all international efforts aimed at ending the illegal Israeli occupation and achieving peace and stability in the region."

But Netanyahu and his supporters say that "these measures reward Hamas for carrying out the most devastating attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. More than 1,100 people were killed in its October attack, and 250 people were taken hostage."

A ceasefire that lasted for a week at the end of November, brokered by the United States, Egypt, and Qatar, succeeded in securing the release of more than 100 hostages held by Hamas, easing the fighting for Palestinians in Gaza, and increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid.

But international mediators failed to reach another agreement to secure the release of the hostages.

For its part, the Israeli occupation army announced on Friday that it had recovered the bodies of three hostages from an unknown location in Gaza - bringing the known number of hostages to about 125, and it is believed that about 36 of them were killed in the Israeli bombing.

According to Israeli media, the Hostage Families Forum on Thursday released a video showing the kidnapping carried out by Hamas of seven Israeli female soldiers working as observers at an Israeli military base in southern Israel. The video was published as part of a pressure campaign on the Israeli government and the international community to do more to secure their release.

Israeli officials did not provide a timetable for how long they expected the operation in Rafah to continue. Israel postponed the start of the operation for weeks amid concerns from the Biden administration about the number of civilian deaths in the region. Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed more than 35,500 Palestinians in the past seven months, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

It is noteworthy that most Israelis support the Israeli war on the Palestinians besieged in the Gaza Strip, but fatigue arises amid deep divisions over the number of military deaths - more than 600 soldiers were killed during confrontations with Hamas fighters since the beginning of the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza on October 28, according to Israeli sources - and anxiety On efforts to release hostages who may still be alive;  rising tensions with the United States and international isolation.

The Hill website quotes Shmuel Rosner, a senior fellow at the Jewish People's Policy Institute who conducted regular polls of the Israeli public before and after the Hamas attack on October 7, as saying: "The public has become disillusioned with the war effort."

He added, "We Israelis, in general, support the war. We, in general, still understand that winning the war is essential for Israel. But after eight months, as expected, there is increasing fatigue, frustration and political infighting."

He also believes that Netanyahu is in a relatively strong position at the head of the government, and is unlikely to be forced to hold early elections, but he faces increasing public opposition from members of his party, lawmakers in the coalition, and greater attacks from the leftist opposition.

Gallant called on Netanyahu to present a general plan for Gaza in the absence of Hamas control over the Palestinian population in the Strip. Benny Gantz, a member of the wartime cabinet, has given a June 8 deadline when he will exit the coalition if Netanyahu fails to develop a post-war strategy.