On an urgent mission aimed primarily at preventing the Israel-Hamas conflict from spreading into a regional war, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey would consider participating in post-conflict reconstruction and governance of Gaza, which has been decimated by three months of Israeli bombardment.
A senior commander of the militant group Hezbollah was killed Monday in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. Fighting raged near the main hospital in central Gaza.
