Palestinian humanitarian needs in focus at Jordan meeting as US pushes for Israel-Hamas cease-fire
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Humanitarian aid dropped on Khan Yunis falls near tents sheltering Palestinians displaced by conflict in the southern Gaza Strip, June 4, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, in Israel, June 10, 2024. Palestinians children search through the rubble of their home a day after an operation by the Israeli Special Forces in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, June 9, 2024. People walk near a screen displaying a picture of Shalom Ziv who was kidnapped during the deadly October 7 attack and, according to the military, rescued by the Israeli forces in Tel Aviv, June 10, 2024.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to take part in a meeting in Jordan focusing on how to boost the international community’s humanitarian response for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who are badly in need of help after eight months of war.
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