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Blinken calls for protection of civilians as Israel prepares for expected assault on Gaza
RIYADH: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Saturday for protection for civilians in both the Gaza Strip and
as the Israeli military ordered half of the Palestinian territory’s population to evacuate in advance of an expected ground assault. Blinken met his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, in Riyadh as he began a third day of intense Middle East diplomacy aimed at preventing the Israel-Hamas
war from expanding into a regional conflict and fuelling a…