Blinken pushes Hamas leaders to accept Gaza ceasefire proposal

Anthony Blinken today urged regional leaders from Cairo, the first stop of a new tour of the Middle East, to put pressure on Hamas to accept a ceasefire proposal to end the war in the Gaza Strip. “I firmly believe that the vast majority” of Israelis and Palestinians “want to believe in a future” in which the two peoples “live in peace and security,” added the US top diplomat, just over eight months into the Palestinian-Palestinian conflict. Islamist movement Hamas and Israel. Blinken stressed that the Palestinian Islamist movement is the only one that does not accept the proposal for a three-phase deal that includes the release of hostages and talks to end the fighting, to which the US Secretary of State stressed that Israel has agreed. Source: RES
Source: News Beast

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