US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Saturday in the Jordanian capital of Amman, as the US diplomat has a full day of meetings with members of the Arab nations.

The two shook hands in a brief photo op before the meeting began.

Qatar has served as the key negotiator in discussions with Hamas terrorists as the war in Israel nears a month.

On Friday, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry stated that Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, along with prime ministers from the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Egypt, and the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization would also meet with Blinken to discuss possibilities of de-escalation in the region.

The diplomats will also be discussing ways to manage the humanitarian crisis running rampant in the Gaza Strip.

A video shared by CBS News showed a pair of Palestinian brothers reunited following an Israeli airstrike.

In the video the young boy can be seen crying out to the cameraman that he sees his brother among the injured.

Far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) accused President Biden of supporting the “genocide” of Palestinians on Friday and warned that voters “won’t forget” in 2024. 

The “Squad” lawmaker leveled the accusation in an attack video aimed at pressuring Biden, 80, to call for a cease-fire in Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. 

The minute-and-a-half-long video, posted on Tlaib’s X account, juxtaposes clips of Biden vowing to “stand with Israel” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanking the president for his “unequivocal support” with footage of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and injured and dead Palestinians. 

“Mr. President, the American people are not with you on this one,” Tlaib, an outspoken critic of Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on the Jewish state, says in the video. 

“We will remember in 2024,” she adds. 

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More from the senior White House official on Israel's strike earlier this week on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

According to the official, the strike hit a "tunnel complex" used by Hamas, meaning a whole city block of dwellings "collapsed into the tunnel complex.

"The explanations we've had from the Israelis, it was not just a [Hamas] battalion commander [who was killed], it was a a number of his leaders, a significant contingent of that battalion in that tunnel complex, but the intent was not to collapse the city block."

A quite extraordinary statement from a senior Biden administration official during a call with reporters this evening, possibly explaining the slow pace of getting foreign nationals out of the Gaza Strip.

"Hamas was not allowing anybody to leave," the person said. "And then they said that they would allow foreign nationals to leave, subject to a number of wounded Palestinians being allowed to leave, as well, which of course is not objectionable.

"But the list that was provided, once it was vetted, about a third of the wounded Palestinians on the list were members of Hamas," the official went on, calling the subterfuge "unacceptable."

A horrifying new video purportedly shows at least a dozen Gaza residents shot dead in the streets by Hamas terrorists as they were attempting to flee from the north to the south of the Hamas-controlled region.

In the video posted on X, a man films the carnage as he rides a bicycle down the Al Rasheed beach road, crying out in anguish the camera focuses on the dead bodies, many of them lying in pools of blood.

In a separate post, author and journalist Amjad Taha said the victims were among “dozens” killed by Hamas snipers, including women and children, because “they do not want citizens to leave.”

“They want to use them as human shields and will kill anyone who attempts to leave. Hamas terrorists in Gaza will, as usual, blame #Israel because it is easy and there is media that accepts this propaganda,” he wrote.

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has no contingency drawn up for who will rule the Gaza Strip after the terror group Hamas is defeated, an IDF spokesperson tells The Post.

“As of now, I don’t think the IDF is too concerned with that, because we’re too busy fighting. Once we will get closer to achieving the aim of dismantling Hamas, then I think that will be more relevant," said Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus.

Once Hamas is driven out of Gaza, the fate of the territory "will be an international question" that "various stakeholders will be a part of," he added.

“[There will be] a great opportunity for prosperity and quiet once Hamas is gone," Conricus said. "It will be great for Gaza, it will be excellent for Israel and it will [mean] lots of opportunities for 2.3 million Palestinians who have been oppressed by Hamas to get education, work, livelihood, hope, and prospects for the future.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has floated three possible solutions that America could see playing out: allowing the Palestinian Authority -- which controls the West Bank -- to rule over Gaza as it did previously; asking Arab countries with ties to Israel to control the area; or getting international parties like the United Nations to help out.

The Department of Defense released images of the aircraft carriers Gerald R. Ford and Dwight D. Eisenhower along with strike groups in formation in the Mediterranean Sea, after Hezoballah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah threatened in a televised address to make the US "pay dearly" for its support of Israel.

The US deployed the warships to deter Lebanon and Iran from taking advantage of Israel's war with Hamas.

WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that his country would not consider halting its war on Hamas, rejecting Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call for “humanitarian pauses” to allow civilians out of the Gaza Strip.

Israel “refuses a temporary cease-fire that doesn’t include a return of our hostages,” Netanyahu told reporters, referring to the more than 200 people taken captive by terrorists during their Oct. 7 attack that killed more than 1,400 Israelis — including at least 33 Americans.

The prime minister spoke after a meeting with Blinken, during which America’s top diplomat urged Netanyahu to stop the conflict to minimize Palestinian civilian deaths as Israel pursues Hamas jihadists hiding among the population in Gaza.

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Hamas accused Israel of bombing an ambulance convoy coming out of Al-Shifa Hospital, killing and injuring "dozens," Fox News reports.

An Israeli official confirmed the strike to Fox News but alleged that Hamas was using the vehicles to transport terrorists.

A Hamas spokesman denied the allegations and said the group holds "United States of America and the international community responsible" for the strike.

Israel has previously alleged, and provided evidence, that Hamas uses Al Shifa as a command center.

“An IDF aircraft struck an ambulance that was identified by forces as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell in close proximity to their position in the battle zone, a number of Hamas terrorist operatives were killed in the strike. We have information which demonstrates that Hamas' method of operation is to transfer terror operatives and weapons in ambulances,” Israel said in a statement.

The Israeli navy and police forces destroyed a large munition after it was discovered off the coast of Haifa, the Times of Israel reports.

Video of the demolition shows water rushing up after the object was destroyed.

It's unclear what the munition was.

The city council of Providence, Rhode Island, has passed a resolution calling for the Biden administration to seek a cease-fire in Israel's war against Hamas, Fox reports.

The resolution was posted on the X account of council member Miguel Sanchez, and claimed that Providence was one of the first cities to "pass a resolution urging our federal delegation and @POTUS to call for a ceasefire!"

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Israel to push for a "pause" in hostilities, and President Biden has said he would favor such a move.