David Markovsky News Today

since the beginning of the war, targeting the northwest of the gaza strip in particular. it comes as the us secretary of state antony blinken has visted iraq, and the west bank, and in the last hour, he has landed in turkeys capital ankara — for a round of talks with leaders in the region. he says all communications must be restored immediately. he has said discussions are ongoing about a "humanitarian pause" in the fighting, to get aid to civilians into gaza. yogita limaye has our f...

on an unannounced stop. he said us officials were working to secure a humanitarian pause in gaza, that would advance several priorities, including getting more aid in and getting hamas�* hostages out. following my conversations with the prime minister and with the israeli government, this is a process. israels raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. weve got to answer those questions. were working on exactly that. in fact, we agreed that our teams would g...

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