Israel says it won't carry out a major ground offensive 'without evacuating civilians' "Israel has said that it wouldn't carry out a major ground offensive until it has managed to evacuate civilians from Rafah", said Catherine Norris Trent, FRANCE 24's correspondent in Israel. "Something which aid agencies have told us they believe is impossible- they simply don't have the means to deliver aid to them and that would mean displacing people who have already been displaced several times."