The White House says President Biden told Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call Monday that Israel “should not” invade Rafah, as the Israeli prime minister reportedly agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss “an alternative approach.” But the Palestinian Foreign Ministry says Israel has already begun its large-scale attack on Rafah without announcing it, as Israeli forces escalate its bombardment of the once so-called safe zone, where some 1.5 million Palestinians have taken shelter. Earlier today, Israeli strikes killed at least 14 people in Rafah and injured dozens of others.

Ibrahim Hasouna: “We’re in Ramadan. People have suhoor to prepare for the fast. But we’re having suhoor over body remains, blood and martyrs. … There’s U.S. support, European support and support of the whole world to Israel. They support them with weapons and planes, with continuing planes. They mock us and send four or five airdrops just to save face.”

Close to 32,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7, according to the latest official numbers. Seventy-four thousand others have been injured.