Several Western leaders announced plans to travel to Israel this week in a show of support ahead of the country’s expected ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, and to plead for humanitarian relief for Gaza. Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Tel Aviv later in the day. President Biden said he would visit Israel on Wednesday to show solidarity with the U.S. ally. The Israel Defense Forces have continued to bombard Gaza, including the southern parts of the strip, an area to which the IDF has demanded that Gazans from the north relocate in anticipation of its expected offensive in the north against Hamas. As many as a million people may have been displaced from the north of the enclave, aid agencies say.