The number of people killed in Gaza since the start of the war has risen to more than 10,000, the health ministry there has said. And the Rafah border crossing into Egypt has reopened to allow foreigners on an approved list to leave the besieged enclave.
Senior Hamas officials are holding a news conference at an undisclosed location.Analysis: Blinken had three tasks in hand on his Middle East visit - none went wellAmerica's chief diplomat is engaged on a frantic bout of shuttle diplomacy across the Middle East with currently little to show for it.
"Are you kidding?" said his Arab hosts - they think this really isn't the time, with Gaza being reduced to rubble. They will also be telling him Israel must commit to ending all settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.No-one he is meeting wants this conflict to expand, but they are not the ones likely to escalate.
The moment of danger may have passed for a wider conflict in the region, but not for the innocents in Gaza still dying in their thousands and the hundreds of hostages being held in their midst. America sent message to Iran over ceasefire, Iranian foreign minister claims The latest UNRWA figures indicate more than 700,000 people have been displaced since 7 October, when Hamas fighters mounted an incursion into Israel. The Gaza border authority says the Rafah crossing into Egypt is open again. Those not listed will not be able to cross the border today, the statement said.Internet has been restored in Gaza, according to a monitoring group and a charity.
Connectivity was almost entirely restricted across the enclave yesterday - the third time that has happened since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.12:14:01Our team in Gaza followed one man as he buried four of his children after an Israeli airstrike, having taken their bodies to his wife's bedside in hospital for her to say goodbye.tells his story in this report:The Israeli military has welcomed the deployment of a US nuclear missile submarine in the region.
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