PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: With tanks massed at the gates of Gaza's largest hospital, United States President Joe Biden pressed his Israeli allies to protect civilians, who on Tuesday were trapped inside with dwindling supplies of fuel and water.

After days of heavy air strikes around Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital, witnesses said tanks and armored vehicles were meters from the gate of the besieged medical facility, which has become a focal point of the five-week-old war.

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