US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed establishing safe areas in Gaza where civilians could relocate, a senior State Department official said on Friday after Israel called for 1 million people to leave the territory.
"One of the things that we did discuss with them (on Thursday) was the need to protect civilian lives in Gaza, the need to establish some safe areas, where civilians could relocate to be safe from Israel’s legitimate security operations," the official told reporters.
The United states is engaging with the International Committee of the Red Cross and United Nations' relief agencies to figure out what that might look like, the official said.