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Marion McKeone: Biden’s ‘bear hug’ backfires as Netanyahu gives US the brush off

US secretary of state’s call for humanitarian pauses in the bombing of Gaza have fallen on deaf ears as tensions rise with Palestinian death toll

Antony Blinken, US secretary of state: During his fourth visit to Israel, humanitarian issues prefaced the US’s insistence on Israel’s right to defend itself and pursue Hamas militants in Gaza. Picture: Jonathan Ernst/POOL/AFP via Getty Images