Israel kept bombing Gaza on Wednesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken met the head of the Palestinian Authority, which Washington hoped could govern the coastal territory after the war ended. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was later set to discuss a “push for an immediate ceasefire” in talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba, the Jordanian royal palace said.

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