The new attacks came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in the region trying to find ways to ease the plight of the civilians caught in the fighting.
U.S. President Joe Biden is calling on Israel to "pause" the fighting in the Gaza Strip, where more than two million people are struggling to survive. Jackson Proskow explains what Biden is hoping the pause will accomplish, and the delicate timing of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's upcoming visit to Israel.Israeli military strikes killed multiple civilians Saturday at a U.N.
Initial reports indicated that 20 people were killed but the agency has not yet been able to verify the figure, said spokeswoman Juliette Touma. Guterres said he had not forgotten the slaughter of civilians at the hands of Hamas militants when they launched their attack on Israel almost a month ago, but said civilians and civilian infrastructure must be protected. He also said civilians must not be used as human shields, and called upon Hamas to release all of the roughly 240 hostages it has.
The military said there were also numerous attacks staged from tunnels on Israeli forces in the northern Gaza strip.
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