Joe Biden will speak with Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, hours after Israel's military announced a partial evacuation of the Gaza city of Rafah.
leaders have remained steadfast in their desire to conduct ground operations in Rafah to complete their north-to-south sweep of Gaza to defeat, but U.S. and world leaders have warned that doing so without properly accounting for the more than 1 million Palestinians who have sought refuge there could result in catastrophic civilian casualties.
The United States has sought for several weeks to convince Israel not to go through with a ground invasion of Rafah. U.S., Qatari, and Egyptian officials have hoped to get Israeli and Hamas leaders to agree to a ceasefire deal, but those talks have not been successful.
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