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Top international diplomats discussed strategies for keeping the Gaza war from spreading beyond Israel and the Palestinian territories on Sunday, exactly three months after the start of the conflict, as the death toll from Israels bombardment surpassed 22,700 people. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the European Unions top diplomat, Josep Borrell, were on separate trips to the region to try to quell spillover from the three-month-old war into Lebanon, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Red Sea shipping lanes. Israel and Hezbollah are trading fire across the Lebanese border, the Wes