Blinken meets Arab leaders as UN says ‘no safe places in Gaza’

1. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting leaders from Lebanon, Qatar and Jordan in Amman
2. Visiting Israel on Friday, he called for humanitarian pauses in the fighting in Gaza, as warnings about the dire situation there mount
3. But Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said there will be no temporary ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza until all Israeli hostages are released
4. There is increasingly little the United Nations can do to protect Gazans, an official from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has warned
5. On the ground, Israel said it had struck an ambulance in Gaza it said was being used by Hamas operatives
6. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said 15 were killed when an ambulance was hit outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City
7. Israel began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 200 others
8. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed in the Strip since 7 October

Source: BBC