Biden's electioneering may put brake on Israel

Hours after Hamas fired a barrage of rockets into Israel from Gaza, which set off air raid sirens as far away as Tel Aviv for the first time in months, Israel bombed refugee camps in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday killing at least 35 people, mostly women and children, according to Palestinian sources.

Although the latest bombing of Rafah was a retaliation against Hamas' earlier attack, all signs clearly show that, despite the wide opposition of the international community, the Israeli government is set on carrying out its war plan in Gaza to the end, in a bid to eliminate Hamas in Gaza and make the Palestinian enclave a buffer zone for the security of Israel.

Yet in doing so, it risks losing the support of the US, as US President Joe Biden will not want the civilian dearly toll in Gaza to continue rising as the presidential election draws near.