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A hospital was shelled, killing and injuring staff and patients, and up to 28 members of one family died in an air strike as Gaza endured another day of relentless bloodshed on Monday.
As heavy shelling and fighting on the ground continued, John Kerry, the US secretary of state, arrived in Egypt to seek a ceasefire that Barack Obama declared was needed immediately: “We don’t want to see any more civilians killed,” the US president said.
Kerry had been authorised to do “everything he can to help facilitate a cessation of hostilities”, said Obama. The remarks were a sign that international diplomacy had been galvanised by weekend carnage in Shujai’iya …. http://uruknet.info