Turkish writer Hamza Rifaat says that Israel cannot launch a ground attack on Rafah. He says such an action would lead to increased pressure on it from the International Court of Justice, threaten to undermine the Camp David Accords, undermine the search for detainees, and weaken the possibility of regional normalization.

He added that even if we take the matter seriously, Israel will operate in an area where it is difficult to determine the locations of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) that it claimed were present there.