[HIGHLIGHTS] Israel deploys soldiers and weapons on the border with Gaza in the face of a possible offensive in Rafah

Israel is beginning to give signs that the next military movements in Gaza are approaching. The army has deployed artillery units and armored personnel carriers in the south of its territory.

US and Israeli representatives discuss plans for that city, the only one that ground troops have not entered, while military retaliation against Iran remains in the air. Iran warned this Thursday about one of the possible targets of an Israeli military attack on its nuclear program facilities, according to the Revolutionary Guard agency Tasnim. An unnamed senior US official has described it as “unlikely” that Israel will carry out an attack on Iran until after the Passover holiday, which ends on April 29, this year. The only Gaza city in which ground troops have not yet entered is Rafah, where more than 1.4 million of the 2.2 million Gazans take refuge and the only city in which Israeli ground troops are not present. The Israeli government has also taken steps that indicate that the international community has also failed to impose a red line regarding its ground offensive in Rafah, southern Gaza. "The main lines of the operation" to invade this city next to the border with Egypt have already been approved by the General Staff and Minister Gallant. The possible invasion of Rafah could become a bargaining chip related to retaliation against Iran if what the Arab newspaper published in London is confirmed. This publication cites an Egyptian source who assures that the Joe Biden Administration has accepted the Israeli plan to invade Rafah in exchange for the Jewish State not carrying out a large-scale attack against Iran. The Israeli army has not yet entered the city, but it does not stop bombing it. In the airstrikes this morning, 11 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. Among them, five children in Rafah, among them, four children. The latest troop movements, the call-up of thousands of reservists for “operational activities on the Gaza front” and the meeting of the Defense Minister this Monday to “debate” a series of measures in preparation for operations.