TEL AVIV, Israel - Top US diplomat Antony Blinken left Israel largely empty-handed Friday after urging its leaders to do more to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza during their war to destroy Hamas.
TEL AVIV, Israel - Top US diplomat Antony Blinken left Israel largely empty-handed Friday after urging its leaders to do more to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza during their war to destroy Hamas.On Saturday, he is due to hold talks in neighboring Jordan with the foreign ministers of five Arab countries who have expressed mounting concern and anger over the civilian death toll from the conflict, now entering its fifth week.
Netanyahu, however, warned that there could be no"temporary truce" in Gaza unless Hamas releases the estimated 241 Israeli and foreign hostages it took during its October 7 attacks. Witnesses said the strike hit Gaza's coastal road, which the Israeli military has previously told civilians to take to travel south.World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was"utterly shocked" by a deadly Israeli strike on an ambulance near Gaza's largest hospital.
Egypt's health ministry said just 17 wounded Palestinians were evacuated for treatment in Egyptian hospitals Friday instead of the 28 originally planned because of the"events" at Al-Shifa. In Washington, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Hezbollah"should not try to take advantage of the ongoing conflict".
On Friday, officials began to force them back into Gaza, AFP journalists at the Karem Abu Salem crossing saw.
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