Delegations from the US and Israeli governments may meet in Washington to discuss Israel’s planned large-scale ground offensive in the Gaza Strip’s Rafah the day after Monday, a report on the website of the American television network CNN reports.

The Israeli delegation was expected to travel to Washington this week to discuss the operational plan for Rafah and consider alternatives.

But the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, furious at Washington’s abstention that allowed a UN Security Council resolution demanding an “immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip to be passed on Monday, canceled the visit. Before finally informing Washington that “he would like a new date to be agreed” for these talks.

The meeting could take place on Monday, according to US officials cited by CNN, without naming them. However, the sources pointed out that nothing is final yet.

Complicating the schedule is that Israel’s government has until Sunday to draw up a new law on the issue of exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from conscription. The exemption, which has been in place for years, is under pressure to end against the backdrop of the war in the Gaza Strip. The law providing for it expired last year.

A temporary exemption measure has since been put in place, which expires tomorrow. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government, which includes far-right factions and parties representing ultra-Orthodox Jews, appealed to the Supreme Court to secure an extension of the deadline for drawing up a new law. The top judicial body may decide tomorrow whether the men will be exempted in the future and whether the law-making process will be extended.

It thus remains unclear whether an Israeli delegation will be sent to the US, as the internal political conflict — which could even lead to the fall of the Netanyahu government — is still fluid, CNN noted.