US president to meet Netanyahu in Israel but Jordan summit cancelled; protesters gather outside embassies in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq among others, after hundreds killed at al-Ahli al-Arabi Baptist hospital
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Meanwhile thousands of people trying to escape Gaza are gathered in Rafah, which has the territory’s only border crossing to Egypt. Mediators are pressing for an agreement to let aid in and refugees with foreign passports out.
Aid workers warned that life in Gaza was near complete collapse because of the Israeli siege that followed a Hamas attack on Israel.
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