UN official says 'no safe place in Gaza' as fighting rages
BBC updates:
A UN official has said there is increasingly little the organization can do to protect Gazans trying to shelter from the fighting.
"Let's be very clear, there is no place that is safe in Gaza right now," says Thomas White, of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
On Friday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said there will be no temporary ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza until all Israeli hostages are released.
Israel has struck an ambulance in Gaza it said was being used by Hamas operatives.
The health ministry in Gaza said Israel had targeted a convoy of ambulances in two different places, including outside the Al-Shifa hospital.
Israel began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 200 others.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed in the Strip since 7 October.
Blinken in Jordan
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Jordan for talks with several Arab leaders and ministers today.
His schedule includes meetings with Jordanian King Abdullah II and the prime minister of Qatar. He has already met Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
Blinken will also hold discussions with foreign ministers from Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE.
THe US secretary of state will also hold a meeting with UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) commissioner general Phillipe Lazzarini and a video call with his Gaza-based staff.
