Gaza came under the third total communications outage since the start of the war, while Israel's military announced late Sunday that it had encircled Gaza City and divided the besieged coastal strip into two.
Earlier Sunday, Israeli warplanes struck two central Gaza refugee camps, killing at least 53 people and wounding dozens, health officials said. Israel said it would press on with its offensive to crush Hamas, despite U.S. appeals for even brief pauses to get aid to desperate civilians. "It was a true massacre," he said."All here are peaceful people. I challenge anyone who says there were resistance here."Another airstrike hit a house near a school at the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Staff at Al-Aqsa Hospital told the AP at least 13 people were killed. The camp was struck on Thursday as well.
Abbas, who has had no authority in Gaza since Hamas took over in 2007, said the Palestinian Authority would only assume control of Gaza as part of a"comprehensive political solution" establishing an independent state that includes the West Bank and east Jerusalem, lands Israel seized in the 1967 war.
Arab leaders have called for an immediate cease-fire. But Blinken said that"would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on Oct. 7," when it launched a wide-ranging attack from Gaza into southern Israel, triggering the war.Swaths of residential neighborhoods in northern Gaza have been leveled in airstrikes. The U.N. office for humanitarian affairs says more than half the remaining residents, estimated at around 300,000, are sheltering in U.N.
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