Hezbollah has responded to far-right Israeli Minister Ben Gvir's calls for war, with the group saying it's ready.

"If 'Israel' wants to wage an all-out war, we are ready for it. Any Israeli expansion of the war on Lebanon will be met with devastation, destruction and displacement in Israel," Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naeem Qassem told Al Jazeera Tuesday.

"Our decision is not to expand the war, but we will fight it if it is imposed on us," he said.

He also claimed that President Joe Biden's cease-fire proposal is a political move ahead of the election.

"There is no serious American decision to stop the 'Israeli' war on Gaza," Qassem said.

-ABC News' Nasser Atta

Hamas will not accept a Gaza truce deal without clear commitment from Israel to a permanent cease-fire and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Hamas official Osama Hamdan said Tuesday.

"We have communicated our position to the mediators that we cannot agree to a deal unless there is a clear position from the Israeli occupation it is committed to a permanent cease-fire and a comprehensive withdrawal from the Gaza Strip,” Hamdan said during a press conference in Beirut.

Hamdan said he does not believe Israel will commit to a cease-fire and called on Israel to submit a clear position of its readiness for a permanent cease-fire and complete withdrawal from Gaza.

"We cannot agree to a deal that does not secure, guarantee and confirm a permanent cease-fire, comprehensive withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the completion of a serious and real exchange deal," Hamdan said.

"We asked the mediators to obtain a clear position from the Israeli occupation regarding its commitment to a permanent cease-fire and a comprehensive withdrawal," he added.

-ABC News' Ayat Al-Tawy

Hamas officials are not responding favorably to President Joe Biden's speech Friday and what they call the current proposal on the table.

A Hamas leader said no Hamas delegation has gone to Cairo, and the group is not accepting the offer given to them by mediators, the leader told Al-Mayadeen, a Lebanese news channel.

"We do not want to start from scratch, and our basic condition now is official Israeli approval of the previous paper, otherwise there will be no rounds and discussions," the leader said to Al-Mayadeen.

Separately, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said the group frowns upon Washington and the West's calls for it to accept Biden's proposal on Gaza "as if it is Hamas who is hampering the deal," he said Tuesday.

Israel is not serious about reaching a deal in Gaza and is still maneuvering under the U.S.'s cover, Abu Zuhri said to Hamas media.

-ABC News' Nasser Atta

Qatar’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it was "too early" to reach a cease-fire deal and that there should be a clear position from both sides on the U.S. truce proposal.

"We are waiting for a clear Israeli position that represent the entire Israeli government," Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari told reporters during a press briefing on Tuesday. "Any talk of reaching a deal needs a clear position from both sides towards ideas put on the table."

The deal should offer a road map for a permanent cease-fire and an end to the war, he said.

"It is too early thus far. We do not have clear positions from both sides," he said, adding that mediators remain hopeful as they push ahead with efforts to reach a deal but are "not always optimistic."

-ABC News' Ayat Al-Tawy

After being down for almost two weeks, the temporary pier system has once again been reattached to a beach in Gaza, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters Friday.

"We expect to resume delivery of humanitarian assistance from the sea in the coming days,” Cooper said.

The reattachment to the beach was done by Israeli Defense Force engineers, just as was done the first time when the pier went into operation in mid-May.

During its one week of operations, 1,000 metric tons of aid equal to more than 2 million pounds came into Gaza via the pier, accounting for about 30% of all aid delivered to Gaza that week. With the re-establishment of JLOTS it will become the third route for aid into Gaza right now.

“Given its proven success, we expect to increase the volume of humanitarian assistance provided through the pier over the previous levels,” said Cooper. “We anticipate that our goal will be to deliver 500,000 pounds over the beach initially and then ramp that up soon thereafter. So essentially, essentially every day a million pounds over every two-day period.”

Aid will begin flowing shortly but for now weather conditions are being evaluated to make sure they are appropriate and everything is working properly before aid deliveries are resumed.

-ABC News’ Luis Martinez