Gaza refugee camp hit by airstrikes amid ceasefire concerns

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, where Abbas urged him to persuade Israel to agree to a ceasefire as more people died in a strike on a refugee camp overnight. Blinken reiterated the US's commitment to providing humanitarian aid to Gaza and discussed the establishment of a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, a surgeon working at the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza described the desperate scene, with patients being left to die due to a lack of resources, hygiene breaking down, and children making up the majority of casualties. Iran warned that the US would be "hit hard" if a ceasefire is not implemented in Gaza. The United Nations reported that over 3,760 children and 2,326 women have been killed in the conflict, and the area around a hospital in Gaza has been rocked by shelling and airstrikes.