Israel said it is expanding combat operations in refugee camps as it targets Hamas, as a hospital director said the toll from a strike on a residential block in a central Gaza in Maghazi camp rose to 80. At the White House, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan held talks with Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, about “the transition to a different phase of the war to maximize focus on high-value Hamas targets” as well as “governance and security in Gaza” after the war, an official said.
