US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has urged Israel to stop bombing civilians as the ground offensive against Hamas ramps up.
, as he returned for more talks with Israel’s leaders as its armed forces press a ground offensive in the Hamas-controlled strip.as Washington has sought to balance support for Israel over the deadly October 7 attacks from Palestinian Hamas militants with efforts to reduce the toll of the war on civilians.Ahead of a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Blinken reiterated that Israel has a right to “do everything possible to ensure that this October 7 can never happen again.
Herzog said Israel was going to great lengths to notify residents of airstrikes, holding up one of the pamphlets that he said Israel has dropped telling civilians to leave north Gaza.Families of some of the more than 240 people taken hostage by Hamas gathered outside the military complex in Tel Aviv where Blinken was meeting with Israel’s leaders. They called for there to be no ceasefire until Hamas releases all hostages.
“We used to serve them, work for them, in houses, in restaurants, and in markets in return for the lowest wages, and despite that we have now been humiliated,” said Jamal Ismail, a worker from the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. However, the system has been scrapped as Israel has reversed its previous policy of offering economic incentives to stability and instead mounted a combined air and ground offensive to eradicate the militant Hamas movement that controls Gaza.
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