Israel-Hamas War: What happened on day 219?

The Biden administration has offered to supply Israel with important intelligence information to avoid an extensive IDF operation in Rafah, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing four officials. 

According to the Post, the information offered by the US includes details regarding the whereabouts of Hamas leaders and the terror group's tunnels. 

The IDF and Shin Bet eliminated a terrorist from Hamas' Shati Battalion who was responsible for holding IDF Cpl. Noa Marciano hostage on Friday, the IDF said Sunday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended a decision to pause a delivery to Israel of 3,500 bombs over concerns they could be used in the Gazan city of Rafah, saying Israel lacked a "credible plan" to protect some 1.4 million civilians sheltering there.

Speaking to ABC News' This Week, Blinken said that President Joe Biden remains determined to help Israel defend itself and that the shipment of 3,500 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs was the only US weapons package being withheld.

US support could waver depending on Israel's next move

That could change, he said, if Israel launches a full-scale attack on Rafah, which Israel says it plans to invade to root out fighters of the ruling Hamas terrorist group.

Biden has made clear to Israel that if it "launches this major military operation to Rafah, then there are certain systems that we're not going to be supporting and supplying for that operation," said Blinken.

Hezbollah claimed that it launched new heavy missiles called "Jihad Mughniyah" near Mount Dov in northern Israel on Sunday.

Jihad Mughniyah was a Hezbollah commander killed in an airstrike blamed on Israel in January 2015 in southern Syria.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again likened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler in an interview with the Grecian newspaper Kathimerini on Saturday.

"Netanyahu has reached a level that would make Hitler jealous with his genocidal methods," Erdogan said in response to a question on Turkey's position on the Israel-Hamas war and previous comments he had made regarding the Israeli prime minister.

Following the alerts that sounded in the Kerem Shalom area on Sunday, the military said two launches that had crossed into Israeli territory from Rafah had been successfully intercepted. 

No injuries or damage were reported, the IDF stated. 

Later on Sunday, sirens sounded in the Ashkelon. 

Rocket sirens sounded in Kerem Shalom, near the Gaza border, on Sunday afternoon.

IDF Brig.-Gen. Yogev Bar Sheshet, Defense Ministry Deputy Comptroller, was wounded in combat in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to Sunday Israeli media reports.

According to the reports, Bar Sheshet was moderately wounded and was subsequently rushed to Ichilov Hospital for further medical treatment. 

Donald Trump condemned on Sunday US President Joe Biden's warning that he would stop US weapons shipments to Israel if the IDF launched a large-scale operation in Rafah.

“This week, he [Biden] announced that he will withhold shipping weapons to Israel as they fight to eradicate Hamas terrorists in Gaza. It was shocking to hear him," Trump said.

"Even now, there are still American hostages being held by Hamas, and they’re saying October 7 never happened…and Biden is falling for it,” he added. 

“Crooked Joe’s actions are one of the worst betrayals of an American ally in the history of our country," Trump stated, adding, "I support Israel’s right to win its war on terror. Is that okay?… I don’t know, it's probably bad politically; I don’t care. You have to do the right thing."

"There would have been no war in Gaza with me in the White House,” he concluded.

The new western Erez crossing opened for aid delivery into the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, Ynet reported. 

According to the report, the crossing has opened despite it not being completed. 

In addition, Ynet stated that some 40 aid trucks were expected to pass through the area throughout the day.