Blinken arrived from Cairo on the last stop of his latest tour of the Middle East, and is expected to speak to the Israeli government regarding the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territories.
The US secretary of state must also urge Israel not to launch a ground operation in Rafah, where some 1.5 million people have taken refuge. people.
A. Blinken had stated on Thursday that the ground attack of the Israeli army in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah would be a mistake.
The secretary of state called Israel’s planned offensive unnecessary, adding that there was a better way to deal with the ongoing threat posed by the Islamist group Hamas.
Also on Thursday, the US Secretary of State said that talks in Qatar on a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages are slowly moving forward.
During the war, an unprecedented attack by Hamas on October 7 in Israel killed regarding 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to official figures.
Hamas also took regarding 250 hostages, of which Israel knows regarding 130 are still in the Gaza Strip, including 33 dead hostages.
After vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel launched a massive military offensive that killed at least 31,988 people, mostly women and children, in the besieged enclave, according to the Hamas-ruled territory’s Health Ministry.
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