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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalvinder45" data-source="post: 225721" data-attributes="member: 26009">The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. will move a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and maintain an aircraft carrier in the region. The announcement was made Friday, a day after United States President Joe Biden said he’s “very concerned” that the violence in the Middle East could escalate, adding that the killing of a top Hamas leader in Iran has “not helped” efforts to negotiate a cease-fire in the Israel Hamas War..Biden said he’d had a “very direct” conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday. “We have the basis for a cease-fire. He should move on it and they should move on it now.”U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was among the growing voices internationally calling for a cease-fire in recent days, saying that it was the only way to begin to break the cycle of violence and suffering.Netanyahu has said his country was determined to win nothing less than total victory<a href="https://apnews.com/article/netanyahu-congress-gaza-hamas-israel-6ea5daf3cd1988b0ad6e874bd450f9bf" target="_blank">”</a> against Hamas. He also said that Israel hoped for a cease-fire soon and was working for one.The assassinations of  Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday and senior Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukur  in Beirut on Tuesday risks esclating the fighting into an all out regional war,  with Iran also threatening to respond after the attack on its territory. Israel has vowed to kill Hamas leaders over the group’s Oct 7 attack on Israel  that sparked the waThe Israeli attacks that killed nine people, including a local Hamas commander, near Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, go <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/3/qassam-brigades-local-commander-among-5-killed-in-israel-attack-on-tulkarem" target="_blank">here</a>. Call for collective global action in support of Palestinian prisoners, Multiple Israeli attacks on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City kill at least 17 and injure dozens. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says that Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a “short-range” projectile fired from outside his residence.Israeli forces carry out two air attacks and multiple raids on Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, killing local commanders and fighters with the armed wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.Netanyahu shoots back against reports and criticism that he is sabotaging a Gaza ceasefire agreement to sustain his troubled leadership. Negotiators return to Israel after hitting an impasse in Cairo.A ship is hit with a missile after two separate attacks off Yemen’s Aden, indicating the latest Houthi strike amid major pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Yemen.Hamas says it has initiated a broad consultation process to select a new leader following the assassination of its political chief Haniyeh in Tehran.</blockquote>

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