US top diplomat Antony Blinken touched down on Wednesday in the Middle East to bolster efforts for a truce in the war on Gaza, as Israeli forces pushed on with a raid on the territory’s largest hospital. Global concern has mounted over the military conflict now in its sixth month, in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas. The latest fighting included an Israeli assault on Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, a vast complex crowded with patients and people seeking refuge, where Israel alleges that Palestinian fighters are holed up. The Israeli army said “over 300 …