The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza distances Biden even further from Netanyahu. Biden and the Democratic Party remain married to the allied country, but they do not hide their desire to divorce the prime minister.

The unrest has been accentuated as the deterioration of the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Strip has worsened. More than 31,000 Palestinians have died due to Israeli bombings, there is a lack of water and medicine and famine looms over 2.3 million of inhabitants, while talks for a temporary pause in the fighting remain stalled.