US President Joe Biden calls on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protect civilians in Rafah. Netanyahu says there is "plenty of space for people to go" north of the city.
Israel is planning an offensive on Rafah, the Egyptian-Palestinian border town in the Gaza Strip. Before the Gaza war, the city had around 300,000 inhabitants, but there are now said to be at least 1.3 million internally displaced people there. Most of them fled there from other parts of the coastal strip, some on orders from the Israeli military.