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Fighting continued in Gaza on Sunday morning for the 30th day since Hamas militants stormed across the Israeli border and killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and abducted over 240 others.
Since then, Israel has relentlessly bombarded the Gaza Strip and sent in ground troops, with the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory saying 9,488 people have been killed, around two-thirds of them women and children.
The Israeli chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi visited troops inside the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the first such visit since the war began four weeks ago.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken faced a rising tide of anger in meetings with five Arab foreign ministers in Jordan on Saturday, a day after Israel rebuffed his efforts to secure humanitarian "pauses" in its war to destroy Hamas.
Blinken is set to hold talks in Turkey on Sunday.
