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Israeli ground troops completely encircled Gaza City on Sunday, and the Israel Defense Forces conducted a wide-scale attack on Hamas’s infrastructure both above and below ground in the evening, said Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari. “There is now a northern Gaza and a southern Gaza,” he said, explaining Israeli ground troops have reached the Mediterranean coast south of Gaza City. “We are attacking with great force,” he said, adding that the attack was a combined air, ground and naval assault in order to “create pressure that will dismantle Hamas.” Hagari said the IDF is still keeping an open...

AMMAN, Nov 3 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hear demands for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza when he meets Middle East foreign ministers in Jordan on Saturday, Jordan's foreign ministry said. Saudi, Qatari, Emirati, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers as well as Palestinian representatives will stress the "Arab stance calling for an immediate ceasefire, delivering humanitarian aid and ways of ending the dangerous deterioration that threatens the security of the region", the ministry said in a statement on Friday.