President Joe Biden was overheard telling Muslim community leaders that his wife had told him to 'stop' the war in Gaza, according to reports. In Israel, the internal security agency says it has thwarted a plan to assassinate a minister.
An Israeli minister began waving his arms around during a heated meeting with top US officials over Israel's plan for a ground invasion of Rafah, it has been reported.Ron Dermer, Israel's minister of strategic affairs, was also yelling while defending his country's plan, according to NBC News - the US partner of Sky News - citing two unnamed US officials.
However, the Israeli proposal did not include plans for addressing sanitation needs or an assessment of how much food or water would be required or where it would come from, the officials said.They said the Israeli officials had only thought through sourcing for a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of tents that would be needed.
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