US secretary of state Antony Blinken warned a ceasefire would encourage more violence from Hamas.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken has dismissed the idea of a ceasefire with Hamas. Meanwhile around 100 British passport holders are struggling to leave to Egypt as Neil Connery reports
Arab leaders decrying the deaths of over 9,000 Palestinians in Israel's war with Hamas pushed for an immediate cease-fire Saturday. “We cannot accept the justification as considered as the right of self-defense, collective punishment” of Palestinians in Gaza, Egypt’s Sameh Shoukry said. “This cannot be a legitimate self-defense at all.”Mr Blinken held firm to the US position that a ceasefire would harm Israel’s right and obligation to defend its citizens after the surprise attack by Hamas on October 7, which left 1,400 Israelis dead.
On Saturday, it offered a three-hour window for residents trapped by the fighting to flee south which has been designated as a so-called safe zone. The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza reported that 15 people were killed at the school where thousands have sought shelter and another 70 people were wounded.
Roughly 1,100 people have left the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing since Wednesday under an apparent agreement among the United States, Egypt, Israel and Qatar, which mediates with Hamas.
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