Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed scores of people overnight, as fears grow of the military campaign intensifying in the southern city of Rafah, a tiny pocket of the territory where more than a million people are sheltering.

Amid intensifying divisions in Israel’s government over the war, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was expected to arrive in the region on Sunday, his fifth trip since the militant group attacked Israel on 7 October, killing at least 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage.

Blinken is expected to spend the week visiting Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and the West Bank to discuss a deal to secure the freedom of at least 136 remaining hostages in Gaza and a ceasefire intended to calm regional tensions, particularly in the Red Sea.

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    8 months ago

    They’re just going to go in and murder everyone that refuses or is unable to flee. We all know it’s going to happen.

    Moreover: There will be no political consequences for any European or American policy-maker that is helping this massacre happen.

    This is the end of the “Rules based order.” It wasn’t a very good system, but it provided a modicum of protection and humanity in a very brutal world.

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      8 months ago

      …murder everyone that refuses or is unable to flee.

      They will also murder those who are fleeing. Those conservative, genocidal dickbags will murder absolutely everyone they can.