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.
I agree. This has been urban warfare for the ages. The lowest relative civilian casualty count ever and rather low casualties for the Israelis as well. This will of course count for nothing in the eyes of the “international community”.
One can only hope that you are right when it comes to the remaining Hamas terrorists and the civilians in Rafah. However, as you stated, sanity and rationality is in very short supply, especially in the Middle East outside Israel I would add.
And maybe the good civilians in Rafah
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Who wholeheartedly support Hamas and its goals, cheer each Israeli death - the more brutal the killing, the louder the cheering.