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Calls mount for Gaza-Israel cease-fire, greater US efforts

by Ellen KnickmeyerEdith M. Lederer
| May 17, 2021 12:03 AM

U.N. Security Council diplomats and Muslim foreign ministers convened emergency meetings Sunday to demand a stop to civilian bloodshed as Israeli warplanes carried out the deadliest single attacks in nearly a week of Hamas rocket barrages and Israeli airstrikes.

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