Gaza must remain open to Palestinians – Blinken

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Palestinians in Gaza should not be forced to leave and should be able to go back home when it is safe.

Mr Blinken criticized Israeli ministers who said Palestinians should move to another place.

The US government person visited Qatar during his recent trip to the Middle East.

He made these comments after hearing that as many as 70 people died at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Video from Jabalia showed dead bodies on the ground of a collapsed building, most of them were women and children.

A person from the Israel Defense Forces told the BBC that they attacked a military target and didn’t know how many people were hurt.

They said the army is working to stop Hamas’ violent attacks. The army is also trying to reduce harm to civilians and follow the law.

More than 60 people from Palestine were said to have also died in the last 24 hours in the southern city of Khan Younis.

Jabalia camp has been hit many times since Israel started fighting against Hamas after Hamas gunmen attacked southern Israel on 7 October.

Around 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and about 240 others were taken hostage during the Hamas attacks.

More than 22,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Gaza, as reported by the health ministry run by Hamas. At least 113 people have died in the past 24 hours from the Israeli bombing.

“Palestinian people should be able to go back to their homes when it’s safe,” Mr. Blinken said on Sunday. “They can’t, they shouldn’t be forced to leave Gaza. ”

Israel’s conservative Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wants Palestinians to leave Gaza so that Israelis can move in and improve the area. He believes Israelis can make the desert fertile.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right politician, recently suggested that people from Gaza should move to another place as a way to solve the crisis there.

The Israeli government says that people from Gaza will be able to go back to their homes, but they haven’t said how or when it will happen.

Meanwhile, things in Gaza keep getting worse. Health experts are saying that hospitals are no longer safe.

Three global medical organizations said they are leaving the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza because Israel has told them to evacuate.

A person from the United Nations who helps with emergencies said they are very worried about this situation.

Gemma Connell said the hospital was very crowded and overwhelmed, and now it doesn’t have the help it needs to deal with more and more sick people.

The boss of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the hospital had to make more than 600 patients and health workers leave.

“Mr Tedros said on X, which used to be called Twitter, that we don’t know where they are right now. ”

Mr Blinken went to the Middle East because things are getting more tense there. People are worried that the fighting in Gaza could get even worse and affect other areas nearby.

Saleh al-Arouri, who was a leader of the group Hamas, was killed in an attack in southern Beirut. Two other leaders and four other members of Hamas were also killed. It is believed that Israel may be responsible for the attack.

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of a powerful group in Lebanon called Hezbollah, said that the killing of Arouri was a severe attack by Israel and that they will not get away with it.

Hezbollah shot rockets into Israel on Saturday because they were upset about Arouri being killed.

“This is a very tense time in the area. ” This is a problem that could get worse and cause more uncertainty and suffering, said Mr.

Qatar’s PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said that the killing of Arouri had made the situation more difficult.

Mr Blinken also said that it was very sad that journalist Hamza al-Dahdouh, the oldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, was killed in a Israeli attack in southern Gaza.

He said that too many innocent Palestinian people have died in the war.

Mr Blinken went to Qatar after visiting Jordan, Turkey, and Greece. He went to Abu Dhabi on Sunday, and on Monday he is going to travel to Saudi Arabia.