Biden urges pause in Gaza fighting to rescue hostages | First Thing

His comments came as Hamas says the death toll at the Jabalia refugee camp nears 200. Plus, Pentagon's UFO online reporting tool launches

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Joe Biden has said there should be a pause" in the fighting in Gaza to enable the release of hostages, as Hamas said nearly 200 people had been killed in two days of Israeli airstrikes on the territory's Jabalia refugee camp.

Why has Egypt not fully opened its Gaza border for fleeing Palestinians? Egypt's president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, said at the Cairo peace summit on 21 October that the world must never condone the use of human suffering to force people into displacement.

What did Sisi say? Egypt has affirmed, and is reiterating, its vehement rejection of the forced displacement of the Palestinians and their transfer to Egyptian lands in Sinai, as this will mark the last gasp in the liquidation of the Palestinian cause, shatter the dream of an independent Palestinian state, and squander the struggle of the Palestinian people and that of the Arab and Islamic peoples over the course of the Palestinian cause that has endured for 75 years," he said.

What does Hansen say? We would be damned fools and bad scientists if we didn't expect an acceleration of global warming," Hansen said. We are beginning to suffer the effect of our Faustian bargain. That is why the rate of global warming is accelerating."