U.S. Secretary of State Blinken to travel again to Israel for talks

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel at the end of the week as differences between Washington and Benjamin Netanyahu's government over the Gaza war intensify.

Israel has worked its way through the north and central parts of the Gaza Strip, hunting down Islamist terrorists from Hamas but killing what Hamas-controlled health officials say are more than 31,000 civilians.

Netanyahu had said his army will also now go into Rafah near the border with Egypt, where Israel believes there are terrorists responsible for the October 7 massacre which killed around 1,200 people.