The Israel-Hamas war, which began on October 7, has become the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides, killing more than 4,000 people. More than a million people have fled their homes in the Gaza Strip, as Israel prepared for an unexpected invasion that seeks to eliminate Hamas’s leadership after its deadly incursion. The Israeli ground offensive could hasten a humanitarian crisis, the aid groups have warned.

Meanwhile, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, US President Joe Biden is now set to visit war-torn Israel on Wednesday. Biden will then go to Jordan to meet with Arab leaders.

As the war continued to escalate, hundreds of civilians killed in the Hamas attacks were yet to be identified by Israeli forensics teams. Also, a lack of clean water in the Gaza Strip is raising major concerns for human health. On Monday, hospitals in Gaza faced collapse as water, power and medicine neared depletion, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians searched for dwindling food supplies while Israel maintained punishing airstrikes in retaliation for last week’s deadly rampage by Hamas.