White House will propose alternative Rafah options to Israel

The Biden administration is weighing several alternatives to an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah, which it will propose to a high-level Israeli delegation set to visit Washington next week, two U.S. officials told Axios.

Why it matters: The White House requested the meeting to order to try to avoid an imminent clash between the U.S. and Israel, the officials said. Both Biden and Netanyahu have drawn "red lines" around an Israeli operation in the southern Gaza city, where more than one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering.

The Biden administration strongly...