Blinken leaves the Middle East empty-handed, impasse in the effort to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Tuesday called on Hamas to accept the latest US proposal to declare a truce in the Gaza Strip, but acknowledged that there are still differences with Israel, concluding his ninth tour of the region since October 7. . During the tour he warned that the ceasefire proposal was likely to be the “last chance” to end the armed conflict. As the war enters its 320th day, time is “counting,” he said, after successive visits to Qatar, Egypt – countries mediating with the US in the indirect negotiations – and Israel. The war, triggered by an unprecedented incursion by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas into southern Israel, is unrelenting. Israeli shelling of a school that had been converted into a shelter for internally displaced people killed at least 12 Palestinians, including children, in Gaza City, according to civil protection. The Israeli army announced that it targeted “terrorists” who […]
Source: News Beast

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