GAZA STRIP: US top diplomat Antony Blinken touched down Wednesday (Mar 20) in the Middle East to bolster efforts for a truce in the war in Gaza, as Israeli forces pushed on with a r
GAZA STRIP: US top diplomat Antony Blinken touched down Wednesday in the Middle East to bolster efforts for a truce in the war in Gaza, as
Hamas meanwhile condemned Israeli"crimes" at Al-Shifa"for the third day in a row, the executions of dozens of displaced persons, patients and staff".Israel's military said it has killed around 90 gunmen and arrested 160 people as part of its latest raid on Al-Shifa hospital -- one of the few healthcare centres still operating in northern Gaza. Israeli forces said the hospital was being used by militants -- a claim that both Hamas and medical staff have denied.
US Secretary of State Blinken, who began his regional tour with meetings in regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia, has warned that Gaza's"entire population" is suffering"severe levels of acute food insecurity"."The funding will provide food for more than 250,000 people and tents for 20,000 families," the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre said in a statement.
Rafah, the last area in Gaza to remain free from a large-scale invasion, is now home to some 1.5 million Palestinians, many of them sheltering in tents along the Egyptian border after fleeing from other parts of the coastal territory. Nineteen senators said in a letter the conflict had"reached an inflection point" and that they have been"particularly disappointed" by Netanyahu's"refusal to engage on a path to a Palestinian state".Saudi Arabia boosts funding to UNRWA by US$40 million targeting Gaza relief
Militants also seized about 250 hostages, of whom Israel believes 130 remain in Gaza, including 33 who are presumed dead. But a senior Hamas official based in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said Israel's response to the group's latest proposal was"largely negative ... and constitutes a step backwards".
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