"I underscored the imperative to the United States that the massive loss of civilian life and displacement of the scale that we saw in northern Gaza not be repeated in the south", says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv. Blinken was speaking on the seventh day of a pause in hostilities between Israel and Hamas that has seen scores of hostages released in return for Palestinian prisoners. SOUNDBITES TO COMPLETE VIDI346P4KT_EN AND VIDI346M4PB_EN