Joe Biden calls on Benjamin Netanyahu to protect civilians in Rafah. Prime Minister Netanyahu says in a TV interview that the refugees have "a lot of space where they can go" Israel is planning a military 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.