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Blinken wraps up frantic Mideast tour with tepid, if any, support for pauses in Gaza fighting posted at 12:10:59 UTC via bostonglobe.com Blinken’s shuttle diplomacy came as Israeli troops surrounded Gaza City and cut off the northern part of the besieged Hamas-ruled territory. Troops are expected to enter the city Monday or Tuesday, and are likely to face militants fighting street by street using a vast network of tunnels. Casualties will likely rise on both sides in the month-old war, which has already killed more than 9,700 Palestinians. The top U.S. diplomat hopes that pauses in the war would allow for a surge of humanitarian aid to Gaza and the release of hostages captured by Hamas during the militants’ deadly Oct. 7 incursion into southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians — while also preventing the conflict from spreading regionally. Neither Blinken nor Fidan spoke as they posed for photographers ahead of their formal talks in Ankara. The top U.S.
