US President Joe Biden has once again urgently called for the protection of the civilian population, as the Israeli military prepares for an assault on the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. A military operation in Rafah “should not proceed without a credible plan — a credible plan for ensuring the safety and support of more than one million people sheltering there,” Biden said on Monday after a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House. Many people in Gaza have been displaced and forced to move several times in order to flee the violence in the north. Now they are “packed into R…