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Israel-Palestine Conflict News: Ground Assault Immanent

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  • US blocks Friday UN Security Council meeting on Gaza, Israel - instead says it will meet on Sunday.
    • US's UN Envoy says Biden Admin will continue to actively engage in diplomacy at the highest levels to try to de-escalate tensions
  • Israeli artillery pounded northern Gaza on Friday in an attempt to destroy a network of militant tunnels inside the territory, the military said, hours after retracting a statement that it had begun a ground assault on the besieged Palestinian enclave
  • little over an hour after Israeli military said it had started invading Gaza it clarified that its troops had not entered Gaza and blamed an "internal communication" error.
    • latest Israeli shelling of northern Gaza has brought the front lines closer to densely populated civilian areas, while Israeli PM Netanyahu has indicated an invasion could yet be imminent.
  • intensified Israeli attack come as communal violence in Israel erupted for a fourth night, with Jewish and Arab mobs clashing in the flashpoint town of Lod.
    • The fighting took place despite a bolstered police presence ordered by the nation's leaders.
  • Israel has massed its forces along the border, calling up 9,000 reservists.
  • So far at least 119 people have been killed in Gaza, including 31 children and 19 women, and 830 others wounded – Palestine Medical officials
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com

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