The US Chief of Staff refuses to kill thousands of civilians in Rafah and proposes specific operations. The proposal includes isolating the city of Rafah from the rest of the Gaza Strip, closing the Rafah crossing with Egypt, forming a joint American-Israeli command room, and carrying out military operations in specific places in the city based on intelligence information.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority indicated that the conversations between Brown and Halevy took place during the visit of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant to Washington.