Israel Sends Gazan Workers Back to the Gaza Strip | VOA News

Palestinian workers enter Rafah via the Kerem Shalom crossing after Israel sent them back to the Gaza Strip following the revocation of their permits.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday the United States firmly supports Israel’s “right and obligation” to defend itself, while stressing more needs to be done to protect Palestinian civilians.

“We've been clear that as Israel conducts its campaign to defeat Hamas, how it does so matters. It matters because it's the right and lawful thing to do. It matters because failure to do so plays into the hands of Hamas and other terror groups,” said Blinken in Tel Aviv. “There will be no partners for peace if they're consumed by humanitarian catastrophe and alienated by any perceived indifference to their plight."