Hamas Israel Conflict….Day 401…Israeli’s meet with Biden and Trump….

Patel said “some steps” have been taken by Israel to improve the situation, adding that the U.S. believed those improvements would not have come if it weren’t for the Biden administration. Still, he added that “additional steps” were necessary. “Nobody in this administration saying that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is pristine,” Patel said. “It continues to be a crisis.”

Israel carried out airstrikes Tuesday in Beirut’s southern suburbs, one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in Lebanon, in a rare late-morning attack. The Israeli military said in a later statement that it had destroyed most of the missile production sites and weapons depots in the area, which it accused Hezbollah of installing.

Here are other key developments

• Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with President Joe Biden at the White House. In a social media post, Herzog thanked Bidenon behalf of Israel.
• President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he intends to appoint real estate mogul Steven Witkoff to be his administration’s special envoy to the Middle East. Trump said Witkoff will be an “unrelenting voice for peace.”
• Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a close political adviser of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, an Israeli official told The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.
• At least 43,665 people have been killed in Gaza during the war and 103,076 injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. At least 3,243 people have been killed and 14,134 injured in Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry said. Neither agency distinguishes between civilians and combatants.
• Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, including more than 300 soldiers. It says 373 soldiers have been killed in its military operation in Gaza….