Hamas Israel Conflict….Day 373……Biden threaten’s Israel on the dire condtions in Gaza

The warning came after weeks of alerts from U.S. and U.N. officials that conditions were deteriorating further in Gaza, particularly in the territory’s north, amid increasing Israeli restrictions on the delivery of international aid.

Mr. Miller said the level of humanitarian aid into Gaza was the lowest it has been at any time since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 last year. He did not specify the possible consequences Israel faced if it did not allow more aid into Gaza, although a copy of the warning letter posted online by a reporter for Axios clearly raised the possibility that the United States could suspend military aid to Israel. U.S. law bars providing military aid to any country found to be blocking the delivery of U.S.-provided humanitarian aid.

Israel has intensified its operations in Gaza again as it seeks to destroy Hamas, even as it has launched a ground invasion of Lebanon to battle Hezbollah, which is, like Hamas, backed by Israel’s arch-nemesis Iran. The Israeli government has told the Biden administration that it will avoid striking Iran’s nuclear enrichment and oil production sites when it responds to Iran’s Oct. 1 missile attack on Israel, two officials said, a move that may reduce the immediate likelihood of an all-out war between the two adversaries.

However, the acting leader of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said it would seek to expand its conflict with Israel by launching strikes deeper inside Israeli territory. In a televised address on Tuesday, he signaled that Hezbollah would not agree to a truce with Israel unless a cease-fire was reached between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Israeli attacks over the past several weeks have killed or injured many of Hezbollah’s top leaders and fighters, though the group has continued to fire rockets at Israeli cities.

Here are other developments:

• THAAD crew arrives: A team of U.S. military personnel has reached Israel before the arrival of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, which aims to thwart attacks by Iran, the Pentagon said in a statement. It did not say when the missile defense system would be operational. The Pentagon said over the weekend that it was deploying the THAAD battery and about 100 American troops to Israel.

• Northern Lebanon: The U.N. human rights office called on Tuesday for an investigation into an Israeli airstrike a day earlier that killed at least 21 people in the Christian village of Aitou in northern Lebanon, saying it posed “real concerns” because it may have violated international laws governing war. The Israeli military said without elaborating that it had struck a Hezbollah target and that it was examining reports that Lebanese civilians had been killed. The region lies far from Hezbollah’s traditional power bases in southern and eastern Lebanon, and the strike has heightened growing fears that no area in the country is safe.

• Health system attacked: Israeli airstrikes overnight damaged a hospital in Baalbek, in eastern Lebanon, and put it out of service, Bachir Khodr, the regional governor, said Tuesday. Lebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad, said that 13 hospitals in the country had now been completely or partially shut down, and that Israeli attacks had killed over 150 paramedics and health workers since hostilities with Hezbollah began last year

• Radwan soldiers captured: The Israeli military said that it had captured three members of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan unit in southern Lebanon and that the three had been taken to an interrogation facility inside Israel. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah. The Radwan unit, better trained and equipped than Hezbollah’s regular forces, has taken the lead in much of the fighting with Israeli troops.

• Iranian general: Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, appeared in video footage broadcast by Iranian state news media and photographs published by independent international news media, ending days of speculation about his whereabouts. The Quds Force is the branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps that conducts external operations, including liaisons with Hezbollah, Hamas and other militant groups that Iran supports…..

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Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem gave a speech detailing Hezbollah’s strategy and vision of the war on October 15. This was Qassem’s third speech since Israel struck and killed Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on September 27. Qassem has taken on Nasrallah’s role as the public face of the organization. Qassem may be among the candidates considered to replace Nasrallah given that he has formal seniority in the organization and has appeared as the public face of the group in these difficult circumstances.