US secretary of state discussed efforts to restore calm in West Bank with Palestinian president
Israeli jets struck a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip killing at least 38 people and wounding dozens, officials from Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health ministry said.
The state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Blinken reaffirmed the US commitment to the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance and resumption of essential services in Gaza and made clear that Palestinians must not be forcibly displaced. Underscoring the nature of a conflict that has come to be dominated by attempts by both Israel and Hamas to promote their own diverging narratives, the Israel Defence Forces accompanied a handpicked group of foreign and Israeli reporters into Gaza for a few hours over the weekend to produce reports.
The soaring death toll in Gaza has sparked growing international anger, with tens of thousands of people from Washington to Berlin taking to the streets on Saturday to demand an immediate cease-fire. An Associated Press reporter at a nearby hospital saw the bodies of at least five children, including an infant, who had been pulled from the rubble.
Blinken previously met with Arab foreign ministers in Jordan as well as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who insisted there could be no temporary ceasefire until all hostages held by Hamas were released.
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