Reports: Biden’s visit is not the reason for postponing the ground invasion. * American military support “will bring a price, represented by an American attempt to demarcate the borders of the battle front, especially for the Israeli government, and expectations now are that we will allow humanitarian steps in the southern Gaza Strip.”

Israeli reports said today, Wednesday, that the visit of US President Joe Biden did not lead to the postponement of an Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, and that the unprecedented American support for Israel in the war on Gaza is aimed at defining the borders of the war and not expanding it to other fronts.

Maariv newspaper reported, “The entry of Israeli army forces into Gaza was not postponed due to Biden’s visit. The considerations are different and related to military considerations and the approval of plans and orders, as a result of the missions that have changed.”

The newspaper added, "It is very clear that showing American power will bring a price, represented by an American attempt to demarcate the borders of the battle front, especially for the government in which there are ministers and members of the Knesset who do not stop criticizing the Biden administration."

The newspaper reported that the Israeli army believes that the war on Gaza will last at least four months, “and it is not certain that this is what the Americans want, as there is a huge possibility that this war will affect the entire stability in the region.”

Regarding the humanitarian crisis taking place in the Gaza Strip, the newspaper “Haaretz” quoted the former head of the political department in the Ministry of Defense, Zohar Balti, as saying, “The Americans give us time to work in Gaza. There is no pressure on us regarding time, but there are expectations of us to allow “With humanitarian steps in the southern Gaza Strip, to which we asked Palestinian citizens to move.”

The newspaper considered that American military support would lead, in the future, to demanding that Israel make concessions, and that if contacts were resumed regarding an agreement to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia, these contacts would not be isolated from “the issue of advancing relations with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.”