Efforts to pressure Israel to spare civilians in Gaza are set to continue today after Israel rebuffed calls for a ceasefire amid a US diplomatic blitz to the region to help contain any escalation of the conflict.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to meet Turkey's foreign minister in Ankara today, hours after hundreds of people at a pro-Palestinian protest tried to storm an air base that houses US troops in southern Turkey.
"There will be no ceasefire without the return of the hostages. This should be completely removed from the lexicon," Mr Netanyahu said. "Not only are we telling them where to go, but we're also helping and creating much better humanitarian conditions in the south," Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus said, without indicating whether such pauses would continue.
Mr Burns also will make stops in other Middle East countries to discuss the Gaza situation, the Times quoted unnamed US official as saying.US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant yesterday and"reiterated his ironclad commitment to Israel's right to defend itself and emphasised the importance of both protecting civilians and delivering humanitarian assistance," the Pentagon said.
Jordan's air force air-dropped urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza in the early hours of this morning, according to a post on X, formerly Twitter, from Jordan's king and reports in state media. Palestinians were facing a war of"genocide and destruction", news agency WAFA quoted Mr Abbas as saying.As Israeli's military said yesterday it had surrounded Gaza City, tensions increased with Lebanon after an Israeli strike on a car in the south of the country killed three children and their grandmother, Lebanese authorities said.
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