US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed this Saturday that the United States supports a “humanitarian pause” in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, but rejects calls for a “truce” demanded by Arab countries.
“The United States believes that all of these efforts will benefit from these humanitarian pauses,” Blinken said at a news conference in Amman on efforts to rescue Palestinian civilians and speed aid delivery to the Gaza Strip.
The man in charge of North American diplomacy spoke alongside his counterparts from Egypt and Jordan after a meeting of ministers from five Arab countries in Amman.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi called for a “cessation of war” in the Gaza Strip, citing Israeli “war crimes”.
“We do not accept the idea of self-defense,” he said, while his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry demanded an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire.”
For his part, Blinken reiterated that the United States believes such a ceasefire will only “keep Hamas in place,” exposing diverging views of the conflict between the United States, Israel on the one hand, and Arab countries on the other. .
The US Secretary of State will travel to Turkey this Sunday and Monday as part of his visit to the Middle East, the State Department announced today.
On October 7, Hamas, classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, carried out an unprecedented attack on Israeli territory, killing more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, and more than 200 hostages. whom he holds captive in the Gaza Strip.
Israel then launched a sweeping retaliation against the impoverished Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas since 2007, with cuts in food, water, electricity and fuel supplies and daily bombings, followed by a ground offensive that ended the siege on Thursday. Gaza.
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