Biden is allegedly thinking about a trip to Israel.

President Joe Biden was allegedly thinking about a unity trip to Israel as the world got ready for an expected Israeli ground invasion of Gaza on Monday. The goal of the attack is to crush the Hamas terrorist group that rules the war-torn region.

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Since Hamas terrorists ran into Israel nine days ago and started killing people in shockingly brutal ways, more than 4,000 people have died and thousands more have been hurt. Israel said that at least 199 people were being held hostage in Gaza.

The number of American deaths rose to 30, and the State Department said 13 Americans were still missing, but they couldn’t say how many Americans were being held hostage.

Monday was Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s second trip to Israel in less than a week. He had just come back from a quick trip to six Arab states to rally support for Israel and stop the war from spreading to the rest of the Middle East. He said that the same worry is felt by other Arab countries.

“We stand with Israel as it fights for itself,” Blinken wrote on social media. “The US is also working hard to make sure that the people of Gaza can get out of harm’s way and get the food, water, and medicine that they need.” It doesn’t matter to Hamas if Palestinians are in pain.

A top source in the Biden administration told The Associated Press that Biden was thinking about the trip but didn’t want to be named.

There is no spillover: Blinken says Arab leaders don’t want the war between Israel and Hamas to affect other countries.

Over a million people in Gaza had to leave their homes. Israel told people to leave northern Gaza last week, which caused more chaos in the area that Israel occupies and where about 2.3 million Palestinians live.
People who live in 28 villages near the border with Lebanon have been told by the Israeli military to leave because of rising border fire between Israel and Hezbollah, a Shiite group in Lebanon.

Things Gaza doesn’t have enough of

People from Gaza were squished into hospitals and schools on Monday because food, water, and medicine were running low because Israel had a tight blockade on the area. Trucks bringing much-needed goods have been waiting for days at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt while talks for a cease-fire continue. This would allow the trucks to enter Gaza and allow foreigners to leave. Israeli bombs shut down Gaza’s only border crossing to Egypt a few days ago.

“The conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory is a terrible reminder of how quickly millions of people’s health can be put at risk,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, wrote on social media. “War will bring nothing but destruction and horror.”

A knife attack in Illinois is being looked into as a possible hate crime.

The death of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume by stabbing in Illinois was looked into by the Justice Department as a federal hate crime. Hanaan Shahin, his mother, was hurt very badly in the attack. Police in Will County say the suspect is 71-year-old Joseph Czuba from Plainfield Township, which is about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. The sheriff’s office said that Czuba was charged on Sunday with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and two counts of hate crime for what they think was a planned attack because of the war between Israel and Hamas. Czuba was being held on Sunday while he waited to go to court.

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An attorney general statement said, “I am heartbroken by the abhorrent killing of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a six-year-old child who died after being stabbed 26 times with a military-style knife.” “I want to send my deepest condolences to his family and the people in his community as they grieve his death on behalf of the whole Justice Department.”

Outline of the war between Israel and Hamas

Since its founding in 1987, Hamas has been behind many suicide bombs and other acts that have killed many people in Israel. About 1,000 Hamas fighters stormed across the Israeli border by land and sea on October 7. Hamas says that the attack was partly a reaction to what Israeli police were doing at the third holiest place in Islam, the Al-Aqsa mosque complex. For Jews, the area where the Jerusalem mosque is located is very holy. They call it the Temple Mount.

But Hamas officials also say that Israel’s harsh crackdowns, the 16-year blockade of Gaza and the West Bank, the continued building of illegal Israeli settlements, and Israel’s tight military control of Gaza are to blame.

Also, the attack happened at a time when ties between Israel and some Arab countries were getting better. Hamas won’t recognize Israel, and the attack and Israel’s strong reaction could make peace talks take longer or fail altogether.

What does Hamas mean?

Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, or the Islamic resistance movement, is what Hamas stands for. It was started by Muslim Brotherhood members during the first Palestinian uprising against Israel’s control over Gaza and the West Bank. In 1997, ten years after it was formed, the State Department called Hamas a terrorist organization. A number of other countries also think of Hamas as a terrorist group.

In 2006, Hamas won elections for the parliament. Then, in 2007, the group violently took over Gaza from the Palestinian Authority, which was run by Fatah, a rival movement that still controls the West Bank. As of now, there have been no votes. The group wants to replace Israel with an Islamic Palestinian state and thinks that murder is the best way to destroy Israel.

Iran helps Hamas with money, supplies, and transportation. But the US and other countries have said so far that there is no proof that Iran was directly involved in Hamas’ attack.

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