Palestinians hope Blinken visit can deliver Gaza truce before Rafah assault
Doha, Qatar/Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Reuters The top US diplomat met Saudi Arabia’s de-facto ruler on Monday in a visit that Palestinians hope will deliver a truce in Gaza before a threatened Israeli assault on Rafah, the border city where about half of the enclave’s population is sheltering. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Riyadh […]
Israel vows to demolish Hamas as troops prepare to move on shattered Gaza
Gaza/Jerusalem Reuters Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “demolish Hamas” as his troops prepared to move into the Gaza Strip in pursuit of Hamas militants whose deadly rampage through Israeli border towns shocked the world. Israel has urged exhausted Gazans to evacuate south, which hundreds of thousands have already done in the […]
Snapshot: ‘The Edge of the World’, Saudi Arabia
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