Casualties will likely rise on both sides in the month-old war.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was wrapping up a Middle East diplomatic tour on Monday in Turkey after only limited success in his efforts to forge a regional consensus on how best to ease civilian suffering in Gaza as Israel intensifies its war against Hamas.
Casualties will likely rise on both sides in the month-old war, which has already killed more than 9,700 Palestinians.The top US diplomat hopes that pauses in the war would allow for a surge of humanitarian aid to Gaza and the release of hostages captured by Hamas during the militants’ deadly October 7 incursion into southern Israel, while also preventing the conflict from spreading regionally.
Mr Blinken’s mission, his second to the region since the war began, has found only tepid, if any, support. Already Jordan and Turkey have recalled their ambassadors to Israel to protest its tactics and the tide of international opinion appears to be turning from sympathy toward Israel in the aftermath of October 7 to revulsion as images of death and destruction in Gaza spread around the world.
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