The US secretary of state met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his latest bid to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip.
Antony Blinken has taken his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank, trying to assure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the US is intensifying efforts to ease the plight of Gaza’s civilians and insisting that Palestinians must have a main say in the future of the territory.
President Joe Biden’s top diplomat travelled through the West Bank city of Ramallah in an armoured motorcade and under tight security.It was his third day of shuttle diplomacy aimed at trying to limit the destabilising regional fallout from the war and overcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to consider a US proposal for intermittent pauses in its attack on Hamas long enough to get vital aid to Gaza’s civilians.
The Biden administration, while remaining the strongest backer of Israel’s military response to Hamas’s attacks on October 7, is increasingly seeking to use its influence with Israel to try to temper the effect of Israel’s weeks of complete siege and near round-the-clock air, ground and sea assaults in the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million civilians.
Jordanian deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ayman Safadi with Antony Blinken at a press conference in Amman He said that “what we all agree” is that in shaping a future for Gaza, the West Bank and “ultimately” for a Palestinian state, “Palestinian voices have to be at the centre of that. The Palestinian Authority is the representative of those voices so it’s important that it play a leading role”.
Mr Blinken met Mr Netanyahu on Friday before holding talks in Jordan with Arab ministers on Saturday. The Arab officials pushed for an immediate ceasefire, but Mr Blinken said that would be counter-productive and could encourage more violence by Hamas.
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