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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged Israel to desert navy plans for a floor offensive in Rafah, the southern Gaza metropolis the place nearly all of Palestinians have crowded to evade the battle. “The number of civilian casualties is far too high and the amount of humanitarian aid is far too low,” Austin informed Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Washington, stressing that the safety of civilian lives was a “moral necessity and a strategic imperative.”