AMMAN, Jordan — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is assembly with Center Japanese leaders and international ministers in Amman on Saturday in a bid to forestall Israel’s battle with Hamas from widening right into a regional warfare. The go to follows a packed day in Tel Aviv, the place Blinken pressed for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to reject the U.S. push, refusing “a brief cease-fire that doesn’t embrace the return of hostages.” The U.N. reduction company UNRWA stated a strike hit one in every of its faculties sheltering households within the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Saturday. It stated kids have been amongst these reported killed within the assault, a day after a lethal Israeli strike on an ambulance outdoors Gaza Metropolis’s largest hospital.