US secretary of state Antony Blinken made his third trip to Israel since the war began.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back against growing US pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the war to protect civilians and allow more aid into the Gaza Strip, insisting there will be no temporary ceasefire until the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas are released.
After talks with Mr Netanyahu, Mr Blinken said a temporary halt is needed to boost aid deliveries and help win the release of the hostages Hamas took during its October 7 incursion. Footage showed the aftermath outside Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, where more than a dozen bloodied bodies of men, women and children were strewn next to damaged cars and ambulances. One bleeding boy screamed as he huddled on top of a woman sprawled on the pavement.
Twenty-four Israeli soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the ground operation. The Israeli military said its aircraft on Friday had hit an ambulance near a battle zone that Hamas fighters were using to carry weapons. That claim could not be verified. Pablo Escobar's feral 'cocaine hippos' face cull in Colombia after being deemed 'invasive' and 'ecological time bombs'Death toll rises in Europe as Storm Ciaran arrives in Italy with record rainfallNew Delhi shuts schools and limits construction work amid severe air pollution
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