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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has once again called on Israel not to launch a ground offensive in the Palestinian city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, while on yet another trip to the Middle East to hold crisis talks. “There must be no large-scale offensive on Rafah,” she said in Cairo on Monday after a meeting with her Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry. “People cannot disappear into thin air,” she said after another round of crisis talks amid the increasingly catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Palestinian coastal strip. According to estimates, 1.5 million of the 2.2 million i…