???? Live: Leaders of 18 countries call on Hamas to release hostages held in Gaza
The leaders of the United States, Britain, France and more than a dozen other countries called in a joint statement Thursday for Hamas to release the scores of hostages it has been holding in Gaza for more than 200 days. The news came as a Palestinian civil defence team called on the UN to investigate what it said were war crimes at a southern Gaza hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies were recovered from mass graves after Israeli soldiers departed the complex. Read our liveblog to follow today's developments in the Middle East.
The leaders of the United States, Britain, France and more than a dozen other countries called in a joint statement Thursday for Hamas to release the scores of hostages it has been holding in Gaza for more than 200 days. The news came as a Palestinian civil defence team called on the UN to investigate what it said were war crimes at a southern Gaza hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies were recovered from mass graves after Israeli soldiers departed the complex. Read our liveblog to follow today's developments in the Middle East.
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