US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has welcomed a four-hour humanitarian pause in the Israeli bombardment, but said more action was needed to protect Gaza's civilians.
The United States has expressed growing concern about the rising Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip, where health officials said the number killed in a five-week-old Israeli bombardment had topped 11,000. In his strongest comments to date on the plight of civilians caught in the Gaza cross-fire, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on a visit to India on Friday: "Far too many Palestinians have been killed; far too many have suffered these past weeks.
Israel says Hamas hides weapons in tunnels under hospitals, charges Hamas denies. Israeli tanks, which have been advancing through northern Gaza for almost two weeks, have taken up positions around the Nasser Rantissi cancer hospital as well as the Al-Quds hospital, medical staff said earlier, raising the alarm. Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said Israel had bombed Shifa hospital buildings five times.
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