Administration officials appear determined to press on with military and political support for Israel, following the deadly Hamas attack it endured last October, while also pressuring its ally to avoid a full-scale military operation in densely populated Rafah. Earlier this month, the White House announced it was pausing a shipment of about 3,500 bombs, including massive 2,000-pound explosives that the Biden administration said were leading to civilian deaths. 

The US officials, in pressuring Israel, had suggested that a major operation was a red line that would undermine stalled negotiations on a deal to return Israeli hostages taken by Hamas and would lead Biden to further dial back on the weaponry he would send Israel. But the tone at the White House seemed to take a notable shift this week after US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan returned from Israel, where he said that he has been briefed on “refinements” in the Israeli plan to root out Hamas in Rafah, and to Saudi Arabia.

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