Elijah Magnier, a military and political analyst, has said US President Joe Biden’s move to restrict some weapons to Israel will not change Prime Minister Netanyahu’s strategy in Gaza’s Rafah, Al Jazeera reports.

“This is not going to change any of Netanyahu’s plans to occupy Rafah,” Magnier told Al Jazeera.

“On the contrary, it will give him enough time to spend more time in Rafah and go very slowly to make sure that this war is going to last as long as possible,” the analyst said.

Magnier added that the US weapons pause is inconsequential because it applies only to “intelligent bombs, not dumb bombs, which Israel has plenty of and has been using for the past seven months”.