German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has called on the Israeli government to hold off on its ground offensive in the city of Rafah and agree to a ceasefire instead in view of the worsening humanitarian situation of the Palestinians in Gaza. “In Rafah, 1.3 million people are living in a very confined space under the most terrible conditions,” the minister said on Wednesday before she arrived in Israel for a two-day visit. “Under these conditions, an offensive by the Israeli army on Rafah would completely jeopardize the humanitarian situation.” The people in Rafah “cannot simply vanish into…