[ScaniaBoy]

Those two items seems to tally; the ICJ and withholding the JDAM kits. If Israel uses the same ammunition but with less precision more civilians will be injured/killed and the Biden administration will have cover to allow the ICJ to act against Israel.

The cost will be more civilian victims but anything to save Hamas....

[rdcbn1]

Rafah is Hamas last stand. So far the Israeli troops have been taking things very careful and slow.

This has resulted in very low casualties for both the IDF and Gaza civilians.

Total IDF KIA in the Gaza ground action are around 250 compared to 320 on October 7 alone.

Gaza civilian casualties so far have been remarkably low as well.

Biden's pressure may force the IDF to move faster and with less care in Rafah which may case more IDF and civilian casualties

On the other hand, things may work out better than expected.

Hamas fighters on Rafah are the ones who ran from the IDF rather than fight and die in place. These rats are running out of sinking ship to run and hide in so after 6 months of getting their asses kicked they may just have had enough and be willing to surrender.

And maybe the good civilians in Rafah have been watching the Gaza being demolished town by town and would rather turn on Hamas rather than see everything they have destroyed.

This would require that sanity and rationality prevail but sanity and rationality is in very short supply these days.

[SaveFerris]

[it sells the precision guided JDAM kits]

Yes, less-precise likely means more collateral damage to civilians

[Ex-Con777]

>The cost will be more civilian victims but anything to save Hamas....<

Civilians in Rafah? Hardly.

The IDF announced plans to obliterate Rafah weeks ago. There is a spitload of humanitarian agencies trolling the ground looking for anyone to help. Any “civilian” should have been long gone from Rafah.

Unless they took OBiden for his word and thought it was Haifa that was going to be attacked. /s

EC