United Nations Security Council diplomats will hold an emergency session to discuss escalating violence in Israel and Gaza, the top U.S. diplomat in New York announced amid reports that Israeli ground forces had joined anti-Hamas operations.

“The U.S. will continue to actively engage in diplomacy at the highest levels to try to de-escalate tensions,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield tweeted Thursday evening.

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