DEVELOPING: Calls for an end to bloodshed after nearly 200 Palestinians killed in Gaza, including 58 children, and 10 killed in Israel, local officials say.
The Gaza Health ministry has put the death toll in the densely populated enclave of two million Palestinians at 197, including 58 children and 34 women, over the last week. Ten people have been killed in Israel, Israeli authorities have said.
United States Ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the Security Council meeting that the U.S. had been working “tirelessly” to try to bring an end to the conflict.
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