“What’s happened has happened,“ he said. “We’re gonna meet with them (the Israeli leadership). We’re gonna talk about what the future holds,“ Rubio said before heading to Israel where he will stay until Tuesday. Once there, Rubio visited the Western Wall Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem. He was expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In late 2017, during his first term as president, Donald Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and subsequently moved the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv.
Water and sanitation services are now at half capacity, Lazzarini said, adding that 10 UNRWA buildings have been struck in Gaza City in the past four days.
U.S. officials described Tuesday's strike against Hamas members in Qatar, a close U.S. ally, as a unilateral escalation that did not serve U.S. or Israeli interests. Rubio and U.S. President Trump both met Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani on Friday. Netanyahu signed an agreement on Thursday to push ahead with a settlement expansion plan that would cut across West Bank land that the Palestinians seek for a state, a move the United Arab Emirates warned would undermine the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords that normalised the UAE's relations with Israel.
Israel says it wants civilians to leave Gaza City before it sends more ground forces in. Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have left but hundreds of thousands remain in the area. Hamas has urged people to stay.
Some say they cannot afford to leave while others say they were hoping the Arab leaders meeting on Monday in Qatar would pressure Israel to scrap its planned offensive. “The bombardment intensified everywhere and we took down the tents, more than twenty families, we do not know where to go,“ said Musbah al-Kafarna, who is among the displaced in Gaza City.
Hamas said Israeli forces have destroyed at least 1,600 residential buildings and 13,000 tents since August 11. Israel's nearly two-year-long campaign against Hamas has killed more than 64,000 people in Gaza, according to local authorities. It was prompted by the group's October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 others taken hostage, according to Israeli figures - REUTERS
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