The first humanitarian aid may reach Gaza as early as Friday, US President Biden confirmed. “If Hamas confiscates aid or doesn’t let it in, that’s the end of it, because we’re not going to send any more humanitarian aid. That’s the commitment we’ve made,” Biden said aboard Air Force One. He added that the 20 trucks are only the “first tranche” but that “about 150 more trucks” are waiting to enter.

Summary of the main events of the last 24 hours of the conflict:

• Egypt’s president agrees to open checkpoint to allow up to 20 trucks of humanitarian aid into Gaza

• US President Joe Biden visited Israel, supporting the firm position of Israel, which denies any involvement in the hospital explosion in Gaza. Local officials say 471 people were killed in a powerful explosion that ripped through a crowded hospital site where Palestinian civilians were hiding.

• Israel blamed Hamas, but its military says the blast was caused by a faulty Palestinian rocket

• So far, official reports confirm that around 1,400 Israelis and around 3,500 Palestinians have been killed.

• Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen hinted that Israel may annex parts of Gaza in a radio interview on Wednesday.

• The US is privately pressuring Israel not to start a war with Hezbollah

• Hundreds of American Jews protested in Washington to demand a ceasefire in Gaza

• Several attacks by protesters on the Israeli and US embassies in different parts of the world were reported after the explosion of a hospital in Gaza, which led to hundreds of deaths, in the context of the ongoing conflict between the Palestinian Authority and the Islamist group Hamas, reports EFE.

• The United States used its veto power on Wednesday to block a UN Security Council resolution calling for a halt to the conflict between Israel and Hamas terrorists to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

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05:33 Former US national security adviser HR McMaster told BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight that an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza was inevitable, given that Hamas posed an “existential threat” to Israel. “Israel will fulfill its commitment to defeat Hamas,” he says, describing the goal as “achievable.” The hostages taken by Hamas create an even greater need for a ground invasion, he believes.

“I see no other option for Israel than to temporarily occupy at least part, if not all, of Gaza,” McMaster says.

05:22 The Israeli army attacked military targets of Hezbollah in the border zone with Lebanon. Among the targets was a military observation post from which an anti-tank guided missile was fired at the northern town of Rosh Hanikra on Wednesday, the army said. The Israel Defense Forces added that the strikes were in response to Wednesday’s incidents

04:50“If Hamas confiscates aid or doesn’t let it in, then that’s the end of it, because we’re not going to send any more humanitarian aid. That’s the commitment we’ve made,” Biden said aboard Air Force One. He added that the 20 trucks are only the “first tranche” but that “about 150 more trucks” are waiting to enter.

02:02UN official: UN wants to conduct its own investigation into deadly explosion at Gaza hospital

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Coordinator Martin Griffiths called on CNN on Wednesday for the UN to conduct its own investigation into Tuesday’s deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza, which Hamas said killed hundreds. . The militants blame the Israeli bombing, while Israel says it was a mistake by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

“The UN will certainly want to conduct its own investigation. And it has to be done very soon and very quickly,” Martin Griffiths said on CNN’s Christiana Amanpour.

01:40The Jordanian Foreign Minister on the version of Israel and the US regarding the explosion in the hospital in Gaza: “No one believes this story in this part of the world”

There is deep skepticism in the Middle East about Israel’s and the US’s assessment of the Gaza hospital bombing, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said, The Guardian reports.

“No one believes this story in this part of the world,” Safadi told NBC News.

“The only way people would accept a different story is if there was an independent international investigation into the tragedy that happened, with irrefutable evidence that it was not Israel,” he noted.

01:11Ex-British officer: Hamas’ intentions similar to al-Qaeda’s after 9/11

A former British army officer compared Hamas’s intentions to those of al-Qaeda in the September 11, 2001 attacks, saying Hamas sought to draw Israel into the conflict and isolate it from international support.

In an interview with Sky News, Justin Crump, now a senior management adviser at the Foreign Office, also said Israel’s denial of involvement in the hospital bombing was based on substantial evidence and their story “makes a lot of sense”.

00:54The Prime Minister of Great Britain Rishi Sunak went to Israel, where he will hold talks with the leaders of this state on Thursday, and then he will go to other countries in the region for additional talks, Downing Street said, according to The Guardian.

The British Prime Minister flew out of London on Wednesday evening and is due to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s President Isaac Herzog on Thursday.

Downing Street said Sunak would then travel to “a number of other regional capitals”, but details were not released due to security concerns and the rapidly changing situation in the region.