Intense bombings, blackout and Blinken tours the region

Israeli bombardment intensified across the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, as all internet and communications were cut off in the besieged enclave for the third time since the war began a month ago. 

Several of those attacks focused on Gaza City and its surrounding area, while Israeli shelling also took place in northern Gaza, near the Indonesian Hospital as well as the Jabalia refugee camp. 

Elsewhere on Sunday, an Israeli strike on a car near Bint Jbeil, in southern Lebanon, killed three children and their grandmother, according to Lebanese media and lawmakers. 

Click the link below to read our wrap story on Sunday's developments. 

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