This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the lead.

I'm Pamela Brown and for Jake Tapper in Washington, D.C.

And I'm Wolf Blitzer in Tel Aviv, where Israel has just claimed responsibility for an

attack outside a hospital in Gaza City.

Videos from the scenes show multiple dead and injured people on the ground near the Al-Shifa Hospital, which

is Gaza's largest medical facility.

Israel says Hamas was using an ambulance convoy outside the hospital to transport operatives and weapons.

And all this comes just hours after the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinke met here

in Israel with top Israeli officials.

And while Blinke once again defended Israel's right

to respond to the horrific terrorist Hamas attacks of October 7th,

he delivered a strong message that suggested the White House's support for Israel is not without limits.

We've been clear that as Israel conducts his campaign to defeat Hamas, how it does so matters.

It matters because it's the right and lawful thing to do.

It matters because failure to do so plays into the hands of Hamas and other terror groups.

There will be no partners for peace if they're consumed by humanitarian catastrophe

and alienated by any perceived indifference to their plight.

Secretary Blinkett also called for what he said were humanitarian pauses to get much-needed

aid into Gaza and more hostages out.

But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rejected that idea, saying Israel will not

agree to any temporary ceasefires unless all hostages are freed.

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