That’s probably why they’re so insistent on going in despite any ceasefire. In the IDFs opinion too many Palestinians are still getting things like food and water.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The amount of aid reaching Gaza fell by half in February from the month before, the UN has said, as its secretary general, António Guterres, warned that an Israeli assault on Rafah would be “the nail in the coffin” of deliveries to the starving territory.

Israel’s military had drawn up a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah, and get more aid into northern Gaza, its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a statement released in the early hours of Monday.

That could be a nod to US demands that Israel put forward plans to protect civilians before it sends troops into Rafah, a southern border city that has become the only limited refuge from the fighting across Gaza and now shelters almost 1.5 million Palestinians.

“An all-out Israeli offensive on the city would not only be terrifying for more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there, it would put the final nail in the coffin of our aid programmes,” he told the UN human rights council in Geneva on Monday.

Israel’s population and immigration authority has refused to grant work visas to employees of international non-governmental organisations that operate in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Haaretz reported.

Any evacuation plan for an offensive would force civilians who sought refuge there to make a difficult and likely dangerous journey north, in a weakened condition, to set up new shelters in an even harsher landscape of destruction.

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