Benjamin Netanyahu greets Joe Biden in Tel Aviv Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters 
Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Thursday Photo: Avi Ohayon/Israel Gpo/Cover Images
Israel ordered civilians in the Gaza Strip to move south of Wadi Gaza, a river that divides the territory roughly in two, ahead of an expected attack on Hamas in the north. Hundreds of thousands of people listened to the instructions.
Mr Cohen's remarks will raise concerns that Israel has no intention of allowing them to return. The Palestinian leadership has said that the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip is «a red line that we will not allow to be crossed, just as the displacement of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem or the West Bank must not be tolerated.»
It is reported that US diplomats are trying to forge an alliance of pro-Western Arab countries, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to join with the US, EU and other countries in helping rebuild and govern the Gaza Strip after Hamas.
“The idea is to take this terrible event and turn it into an opportunity to do something that was unthinkable the day before… a lasting settlement with the Palestinians,” said Professor Manuel Traitenberg, an economist and executive director of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv.
“The reason President Biden has been so involved from day one is because Americans view this as an event with far-reaching geopolitical implications.
“This is a significant event in the context of the competition of great powers, the reconfiguration of the Middle East as part of a much broader global geopolitical strategy.”
Israel's air campaign against Hamas has already killed more than 3,000 people. By Wednesday Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
Iran and Hezbollah, the militant group it backs in Lebanon, have threatened to open a second front against northern Israel if the ground offensive continues. The US sent two carrier strike groups to the region as a deterrent against the threat.
Biden's trip was overshadowed by the bombing of the Ahly Arab hospital in Gaza City, which the health ministry said killed more than 400 people. This figure is disputed by experts who believe it could be much lower.
Hamas blamed the attack on an Israeli air strike. Israel blamed the failed rocket launch on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a small militant group based in the Gaza Strip, which also denies involvement.
Mr. Biden backed Israel's version of events, saying Pentagon intelligence suggested the explosion was «an errant missile fired by a terrorist group in the Gaza Strip.»
But the horror of the hospital deaths upended his important regional visit. , as Jordan canceled a summit between King Abdullah II, Biden, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Ayman Safadi, Jordan's foreign minister, said the meeting will take place when the parties can agree about ending the “war and massacre against the Palestinians.”
Mr. Netanyahu's office said Israel would allow aid to pass through Egypt. on the condition that it be limited to «food, water and medicine for civilians living in the southern Gaza Strip.»
Israel has previously rejected US requests for access to aid, despite warnings that food and water is running out. two million people in Gaza.
A Telegraph reporter from Khan Yunis, the southern city where most of the northern evacuees had gathered, reported heavy Israeli strikes in the area on Tuesday. The taps have already run out of water and there is a severe shortage of food.
It comes as Israeli President Isaac Herzog became the latest figure to criticize the BBC for not calling Hamas «terrorists» in your article. reporting.
“I think the BBC's reporting is appalling,” Isaac Herzog told the Daily Mail.
The BBC has defended its editorial guidelines, which say the word «terrorist» must not be used used without attribution.
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