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US blocks -- for the third time in a week -- the adoption of a joint UN statement calling for a halt to Israeli-Palestinian violence

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📸 The father of a 12-year-old girl killed in an Israeli airstrike holds her body at al-Shifa hospital

Explosions light up sky as Israel strikes Gaza.

Israeli jets kept up a barrage of air strikes against the Palestinian enclave of Gaza Monday evening, as a week of violence that has killed more than 200 people pushed world leaders to step up mediation

US military chief warns the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas is creating instability beyond Gaza, saying it is "in no one's interest to continue fighting"

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'No one left but you': Bereaved Gaza father clutches wounded baby boy.

Five-month-old Omar was pulled from the arms of his dead mother, one of his tiny legs fractured in three places. Israeli air strikes killed his mother and four brothers in the night

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#BREAKING UN hails Israel decision to open crossing for humanitarian aid into Gaza

#UPDATE The United Nations has hailed an Israeli decision to open the Kerem Shalom crossing to allow aid into Gaza, and urged the opening of a second location to let in humanitarian workers

📸 A truck enters the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom in 2020

#UPDATE France's President Emmanuel Macron, his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II will hold talks Tuesday aimed at seeking a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, the French presidency said

#BREAKING Israel says re-shuts Gaza crossing after mortar fire

#UPDATE A convoy of international aid trucks that started rolling into #Gaza from Israel through the newly opened #KeremShalom border crossing was halted on Tuesday when Israel quickly shuttered it again, citing a mortar attack on the area u.afp.com/Uend