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CROSS-BORDER CLASHES. Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on Sunday amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters. Meanwhile, the United States has strongly defended Israel since the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, in which 1,195 people, mostly civilians, were killed, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
Blinken received two influential Israeli officials — Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi — “to express our serious concern about the recent civilian casualties in Gaza.” AFP reported sirens wailing and women screaming as children were pulled bloody and unmoving from the wreckage in Al-Mawasi, which Israel had declared a “safe zone.”
The two Israeli officials told Blinken that “they do not have certainty yet” about Deif’s fate, according to Miller. “We continue to hear from Israel directly that they want to reach a ceasefire and that they’re committed to the proposal that they put forward,” Miller said.
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