US President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday to inform about his war plans against Hamas militants. Biden wants to make sure Israel conducts its operations in a way that “minimizes civilian casualties”

Summary of the conflict for the last 24 hours:

• US President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday to inform about his war plans against Hamas militants. Biden wants to make sure Israel conducts its operations in a way that “minimizes civilian casualties”

• Hamas Says Fired More Rockets at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv – Alarm Sirens Send MPs to Bomb Shelters

• UN aid chief Martin Griffiths says health and hospital systems in Hamas-run Gaza are “collapsing”

• An airstrike hit the Rafah crossing from Egypt to Gaza – the scale of the destruction is unknown

• Israeli military updates number of people it holds hostage in Gaza from 155 to 199

Israel-Hamas war – day 11, all information LIVE on Hotnews.ro:

06:20 More than 100 trucks filled with humanitarian aid are currently on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, waiting to enter Gaza, Al Arabia reported.

Israel has repeatedly bombed the checkpoint to prevent humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza in a bid to bolster the enclave’s rulers, Hamas, after the October 7 attack.

06:14 Israel has asked the United States for $10 billion in emergency military aid, The New York Times reported, citing three officials familiar with the request.

05:50 The American general who coordinates US forces in the Middle East has made an unannounced trip to Israel to make sure the army has everything it needs for war. The visit by Army General Michael “Eric” Kurilla, head of US Central Command, is the latest trip by a senior US official to Israel ahead of an expected Israeli military ground attack on Gaza, and comes a day before the planned American visit. President Joe Biden is in the country.

05:45The Israeli Air Force says it struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. The IAF released a video on Platform X saying the strikes were in response to fire from Lebanon towards Israel. Hezbollah – The Party of God – is a Shia Islamist political military organization that wields considerable power in Lebanon.

05:00Video analyzed by BBC Verify appears to show an airstrike on the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian side of the border, leading to a loud explosion.

02:12US President Joe Biden spoke on Monday afternoon with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who sought to limit the conflict with Israel, the White House said.

02:00 Hamas and Iran have agreed to “continue cooperation” after the attack on Israel

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met with Iran’s foreign minister in Qatar on Saturday, where they discussed the Palestinian militant group’s deadly attack in Israel “and agreed to continue cooperation” to achieve the group’s goals, Hamas said in a statement.

01:31President Abbas says Hamas actions do not represent Palestinians

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that the actions and policies of the Islamist group Hamas do not represent the Palestinian people, the official WAFA news agency reported.

In a phone conversation with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Abbas also said that the Palestine Liberation Organization is “the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people,” according to WAFA.

01:00An Israeli doctor settled in Romania: In recent days I have seen doctors on their knees from the pain of their own impotence / In Gaza there is no water, no electricity, no food, and civilization seems to have died out in deep darkness

An Israeli doctor who settled in Romania spoke on Monday evening about doctors in the Gaza Strip who, while saving lives, learned of the death of dear relatives or even received the bodies of dead children. “I saw doctors kneeling in pain of their own impotence,” said the doctor.

“Yesterday, a doctor in Gaza, while rescuing victims during the explosions, also received the lifeless body of his own child. Another doctor received word today that his father and brother were killed in the bombings. We are doctors and we were taught to save lives, but no one prepared us to endure the pain of not being able to save the lives of our loved ones,” wrote Amin Zahra, a doctor originally from Israel and currently working in Brasov, on Facebook on Monday evening, according to News.ro.

00:44The US is pressuring Israel to develop a strategy for a scenario in which it would overthrow the Hamas regime in Gaza

US President Joe Biden’s administration has been privately pressing Israel in recent days to develop a concrete strategy for a scenario in which it achieves its stated goal of overthrowing the leadership of Hamas in Gaza, US and Israeli officials told The Times of Israel.

00:30Joe Biden held a telephone conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the White House said on Monday, in the context of which he offered to organize an international summit on “the future of the Palestinian cause”, according to AFP. .

The American president also spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz about the trip the latter is preparing this week to Israel and Egypt.