Middle East conflict live updates: Biden warns U.S. will cut off offensive weapons if Israel invades Rafah

The World Health Organization said that Israel’s closure of the Rafah border crossing would cause health services in southern Gaza to run out of fuel in three days. The Biden administration and aid groups warned it was critical to keep the crossing open for humanitarian supplies.

Israel said that it reopened the Kerem Shalom border crossing that was closed over the weekend after a deadly Hamas rocket attack. However, a spokeswoman for UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said that neither fuel nor aid had entered through the crossing.

CIA Director William J. Burns was in Israel on Wednesday and meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Israeli official who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to government policy.

At least 34,844 people have been killed and 78,404 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children.

Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and says 267 soldiers have been killed since the launch of its military operation in Gaza.