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up diplomatic efforts in the region. secretary of state antony blinken is now in turkey for meetings with the country's foreign minister. the country's cia director william burns is also now in israel, urging greater effort to avoid civilian casualties. and in the last few hours, the white house has said vice president kamala harris will discuss the conflict in a phone call with unnamed foreign leaders on monday. this is live, looking across at the gaza strip. it's just after 7am. in a moment, i'llspeak to my colleague, mohamed taha, for the latest developments. but first lets hear f...

since the fighting began. israel said its troops had reached the coastline to the south of gaza city — saying that it had now effectively divided the territory in two. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, who's been meeting regional leaders, said a humanitarian pause in gaza would be welcome. but israel said it needs progress on the release of hostages before agreeing to any pause in its offensive. hundreds of thousands of people are going hungry in gaza as food and water supplies run out, the world food programme has warned. the agency has told the bbc exclusively that out o...