The Israeli military said it will not alter any plans they may have to invade Gaza due to President Joe Biden visiting the nation during wartime, an IDF spokesperson told CNN on Tuesday.

“I think the president also said that ‘Hamas needs to be destroyed,’ and that is exactly our military aim,” said Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus.

Biden will be the first head of state to visit Israel since the conflict began on Oct. 7.

The president has continually condemned the actions of Hamas terrorists since they invaded and slaughtered Israeli communities after infiltrating the country through the Gaza border.

The Israeli military has killed four terrorists attempting to infiltrate the nation through the Lebanese border by planting a bomb, according to the IDF.

"A short time ago, the IDF thwarted an attempted infiltration by a terrorist squad," IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari posted on X Tuesday.

The terrorists were identified by surveillance while approaching a northern perimeter fence from Lebanese territory and were observed to be "planting a bomb."

"Four terrorists were eliminated."

The Israeli military said it has taken out over 200 terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip overnight -- including a Hamas operational headquarters and bank used to fund the terrorist organization in the region.

"The IDF attacked over 200 military terrorist infrastructures of the Hamas organization and the GAP throughout the Gaza Strip," IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari posted on X.

"Fighter jets attacked the operational headquarters of the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip and eliminated terrorist operatives."

"Also, a bank used by the terrorist organization Hamas to finance terrorism in the Gaza Strip and a number of underground terrorist tunnels in the territory of the Gaza Strip were attacked."

Hagari said that naval fighters of the IDF have used "precision weaponry" to strike a number of "operational headquarters in the center of Gaza City and warehouses containing weapons."

An Israeli woman abducted by Hamas during a brutal assault on a music festival near the Gaza Strip pleaded for help in a video released by the terrorists on Monday.

In the 60-second clip posted to Telegram, Mia Schem is shown receiving medical care for an arm wound before she tells the camera she is in Gaza and pleads for her release.

Schem, 21, went missing from the Tribe of Nova music festival where Hamas terrorists slaughtered 260 people.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russia's Vladimir Putin that his country "will not stop until it destroys Hamas's military and administrative capabilities" during a call Monday, the prime minister's office posted on X.

Netanyahu's tough talk comes as Israel prepares for an expected bloody assault on Gaza following Hamas' devastating and cowardly terror attacks over earlier this month.

Putin offered to help in the ongoing struggle and hoped to aid in "ending the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation and achieving a peaceful settlement through political and diplomatic means," according to Reuters.

President Biden will travel to Israel on Wednesday — more than a week after Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than 1,300 people, including at least 30 Americans, and took dozens of hostages to the Gaza Strip.

Biden’s expected trip was announced Monday night by Secretary of State Antony Blinken after the top US diplomat met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The 80-year-old president’s visit will come as the Israeli military prepares to invade Gaza to clear out Hamas.

Biden has presented himself as an ardent ally of Israel after the Oct. 7 surprise attack, in which Hamas abducted nearly 200 people, including some Americans.

The terrorist group has threatened to murder the hostages on camera in response to Israeli operations inside Gaza, which Hamas has ruled since 2007.

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The Chicago landlord accused of brutally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian-American tenant to death was paranoid that Muslims were planning acts of mass terror after listening to conservative radio shows, court documents show.

Joseph Czuba, 71, appeared in court on Monday, two days after he allegedly murdered little Wadea Al-Fayoume and attacked his mother, 32-year-old Hanan Shaheen, in the apartment they rented from him.

During a 45-minute hearing, prosecutors told the court how Czuba had been closely listening to talk radio coverage of the violence in Israel, and he was convinced his Muslim tenants were going to harm him as part of the “day of jihad” called for by Hamas leaders.

The landlord “believed he was in danger and [Shaheen] was going to call Palestinian friends to come and harm them,” Will County assistant state’s attorney Michael Fitzgerald said Czuba’s wife told investigators, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

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A top law professor warned employers away from some of his students Monday, stating they shouldn't hire them due to their anti-Israel and pro-Hamas beliefs in an op-ed penned for the Wall Street Journal.

University of California, Berkeley law professor Steven Davidoff Solomon argued that the "Jew-free" zones many clubs have created by barring all speakers who support Israel were discriminatory and should be enough to exclude those students from working at top law firms.

"I teach corporate law at the University of California, Berkeley, and I’m an adviser to the Jewish law students association. My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers.

"But if you don’t want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don’t hire some of my students. Anti-Semitic conduct is nothing new on university campuses, including here at Berkeley," Solomon writes.

WASHINGTON – The US will soon have two carrier strike groups posted in the eastern Mediterranean after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its support ships to deploy there.

Defense officials say sending two groups of ships is intended to convey an unmistakable message to the likes of Iran and Russia: Help Hamas in its war against Israel and feel the wrath of the US Navy.

The massive carrier and its backing vessels will join the USS Gerald R. Ford group, which deployed to the region last week in response to the brutal Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel that killed more than 1,300 people, including at least 30 Americans.

It is rare for two carrier strike groups to operate together. The US military has just 11 in total and deploys only a few at a time.

Austin sent the second strike group after meeting over the weekend with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

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Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah who served as ambassador to China, said that his family will no longer donate to his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, over its “silence” to the attack by Hamas against Israel last weekend.

Huntsman, the son of the late petrochemical billionaire Jon Huntsman Sr., informed UPenn President Liz Magill that his charity, the Huntsman Foundation, will “close its checkbook” on future donations to the school, which in his words has become “almost unrecognizable,” according to the campus newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“Moral relativism has fueled the university’s race to the bottom and sadly now has reached a point where remaining impartial is no longer an option,” he wrote to Magill on Friday night.

Huntsman blasted the school’s “silence in the face of reprehensible and historic Hamas evil against the people of Israel,” which he termed “a new low.”

He said that “the only response should be outright condemnation.”

“Silence is antisemitism, and antisemitism is hate, the very thing higher ed was built to obviate,” Huntsman wrote in his letter.

Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency Mossad has accused correspondents of the Qatari state-run cable news outlet Al Jazeera of revealing Israeli troop positions to Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to a report.

The Mossad has told policymakers in the Israeli government that it supports a proposal to bar the channel’s personnel from the country, according to a report by Israel’s state-run Kan media agency.

The spy agency has alleged that Al Jazeera broadcasts images showing Israeli forces at various points of entry along the Gaza Strip border.

Israeli troops are massing along the frontier with Gaza in preparation for what is expected to be a ground operation aimed at rooting out Hamas following the terrorist group’s surprise assault last Saturday which claimed the lives of more than 1,300 Israeli civilians and soldiers.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to convene his cabinet on Monday evening, during which government ministers are expected to vote in favor of banning Al Jazeera from the country.

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