According to media reports, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Galant has told his US counterpart Lloyd Austin that there is no date yet for a ground assault in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Galant thus contradicted a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli newspapers Haaretz, Times of Israel and the news portal Axios reported on Tuesday evening, citing sources. On Monday, Netanyahu had publicly stated that the date for the planned offensive in the city of Rafah on the border with Egypt, which is currently overcrowded with hundreds of thousands of refugees, had b…