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Israeli PM says to people in devastated city ‘you have been warned’

Sam Jones is Madrid correspondent for the Guardian

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has stepped up his scathing criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza, accusing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of “exterminating a defenceless people” by bombing hospitals and “killing innocent boys and girls with hunger”.