Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is visiting Washington in the midst of Biden's discomfort over the management of the Gaza war. Gallant seeks guarantees that the tension between the two countries will not affect the delivery of weapons to Israel.

The Secretary of Defense will propose alternatives to defeat Hamas that do not have such disastrous consequences for the civilian population. The visit of Gallant and other senior Israeli officials to Washington is the result of the telephone conversation that Biden and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, had last Monday.