"President Biden will visit Israel."
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the plans for Biden to visit this Wednesday.
"The president will reaffirm the United States' solidarity with Israel and our ironclad commitment to its security...
The president will hear from Israel what it needs to defend its people as we continue to work with Congress to meet those needs."
Blinken is himself in Tel Aviv, where he spent hours on Monday in talks with Israel's war cabinet.
He said the US and Israel would work on plans to get humantarian aid into Gaza.
And highlighted Biden's order for U.S. military assets to head to the region to back Israel up.
"President Biden will underscore our crystal-clear message to any actor, state or non-state, trying to take advantage of this crisis to attack Israel. Don't."
The warning comes hours after Iran's foreign minister threatened consequences for what he called Israel's "war crimes committed against the people of Gaza."
Referring to regional forces opposed to Israel and the U.S. as the "resistance", Hossein Amirabdollahian told state TV:
"The resistance front is capable of waging a long-term war with the enemy...in the coming hours, we can expect a preemptive action by the resistance front."
Meanwhile, Hamas hinted on Monday it may try to use the people its fighters kidnapped from Israel for a prisoner swap.
Khaled Meshaal, a top Hamas leader, told a Qatari TV channel that the group "has what it needs" to free all Palestinians in Israeli prisons - roughly 6,000 people.
Israel says Hamas took 199 hostages to Gaza, while the militant group says it has between 200 and 250 captives, abducted from Israel during its fighters' surprise attack on October 7.
In separate comments on Monday, the group's armed wing said the non-Israelis in their captive were "guests" who would be released "when circumstances allow."
