Previously the IDF had mentioned one hundred fifty five people were being held hostage by Hamas. Over the weekend, China’s foreign minister accused Israel of going “beyond the scope of self-defense” with its retaliatory airstrikes and blockade of Gaza. Blinken has been negotiating to get the Rafah crossing from southern Gaza into Egypt opened for no much less than several hours to allow overseas nationals, including Americans, to flee the Palestinian territory and aid to get in. The State Department has urged U.S. residents trapped in Gaza to move to the Rafah crossing if they’ll achieve this safely, in hope that a gap shall be agreed between Israel and Egypt, which, like Hamas, has accused Israel of bombing the realm. A map exhibits southern Israel, the Gaza Strip and surrounding countries, together with the location of the Rafah border crossing from Gaza into Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.
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