US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is engaging in critical ceasefire talks in Cairo amidst the escalating violence in Gaza, as Israel intensifies its military offensive around Al Shifa hospital.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Cairo for talks with Arab officials to push for a ceasefire in Gaza after Israel's prime minister told US Republicans there would be no let-up in the war against Hamas . In Gaza itself, Israel's military offensive centred on the Al Shifa hospital, the only partially working medical facility in the north of the Strip, for a fourth day, and local residents said they had seen buildings in flames inside the complex.
It said it had found terrorist infrastructure and weapons in and around the facility, showing images of AK-47 automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and other artillery. Military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said "many Hamas terrorists - operatives and senior ones" had been hiding in the hospital along with Islamic Jihad militants. Hamas denied the hospital harboured militants and said those killed were wounded patients and displaced people.
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