Gaza death toll rises to 3,000 with Biden due to visit Israel.

ISLAMABAD -- The Palestinian death toll from Israel's bombardment of Gaza climbed to about 3,000 on Tuesday, health authorities said, and at least six people were killed in an Israeli air strike that hit a school run by the UN's Palestinian refugee agency. The violence raged as Washington

announced that US President Joe Biden would visit Israel on Wednesday to show support for its war on Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip. Israel has vowed to annihilate the Palestinian group after Hamas gunmen crossed the border and killed 1,300 people, mainly civilians, during a rampage through southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, the deadliest single day...

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