The US abstention at the UN, which made possible the first ceasefire resolution in six months of war, strains the relationship between the two traditional allies to the extreme. On the Israeli side, anger was manifested this Monday with the cancellation of the visit of a delegation to Washington to discuss the announced ground offensive on Rafah.

The White House considers that the turning point that the bilateral relationship seems to have reached is due to internal political reasons, according to three senior US officials. In 2010, then vice president of Barack Obama landed in Tel Aviv to try to obtain from - then and today - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu a temporary halt to the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.