President Joe Biden's pause of an arms shipment and a State Department report on Israel's conduct in Gaza are a turning point for the Democrat.

The Biden administration notified Congress on Tuesday that it was moving forward with more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel, U.S. and congressional officials said, a massive arms package less than a week after the White House paused a shipment of bombs over a planned Israeli assault on Rafah.

Aid workers in Rafah said that streets in the eastern part of the city were deserted. Thousands of tents used to house the displaced had disappeared.

Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts on Tuesday, stepping up an offensive in the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after being displaced in seven months of war.