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July 10, 2024

News Desk

Senior US official overseeing military aid to Israel and Ukraine resigns

A senior State Department official in charge of US security assistance and arms sales is stepping down this month, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Tuesday, without specifying why she was leaving. “Assistant Secretary for Civil-Military Affairs Jessica Lewis will step down this month after nearly three years of distinguished service to the Department,” Blinken said in a statement. “During her three years in the department, the Office of Civil and Military Affairs provided $51.4 billion in U.S. security assistance to Ukraine, increased aid to Israel after the October 7 attacks, gave Taiwan billions of dollars in military equipment

June 11, 2024

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Hamas agrees to UN-backed Gaza truce plan, US calls ‘hopeful sign’

CAIRO/TEL AVIV: Hamas accepts a UN resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian group said on Tuesday in what the US secretary of state called a “hopeful sign”. Talks on plans for Gaza after the end of the Israel-Hamas war will continue Tuesday evening and over the next two days, Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken said in Tel Aviv after talks with Israeli leaders. “It is imperative that we have these plans.” Blinken met with Israeli officials on Tuesday in a push to end

June 10, 2024

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With Israeli troops on the move, Blinken visits the Middle East to promote a ceasefire

CAIRO: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in the Middle East on Monday hoping to secure a ceasefire proposed by President Joe Biden last month, in an all-out push by Washington to secure an end to the war in Gaza. Speaking after meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on the first stop of his trip, Blinken said Hamas is the only side that has yet to agree to Biden’s cease-fire proposal, which the Washington says Israel has already accepted. “My message to governments across the region, to people across the region, is if you want a ceasefire,

March 21, 2024

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Gaza’s Shifa Hospital a war zone as Blinken meets Sisi in Cairo

CAIRO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo on Thursday as part of talks with Arab officials to seek a ceasefire in Gaza after Israel’s prime minister told US Republicans it would not stop the war against Hamas. In Gaza itself, Israel’s attack focused on Al Shifa Hospital, the only partially functioning medical facility in the north of the Strip, for a fourth day, and locals said they saw buildings inside the compound on fire. Five months of war have created critical food shortages among Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians that in some areas

February 17, 2024

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Blinken sees Israel’s opportunity to smooth ties with its neighbors

MUNICH: There is “an excellent opportunity” in the coming months for Israel to normalize ties with its Arab neighbors, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Saturday, while also stressing the need for a Palestinian state. The top US diplomat said there had been real efforts led by Arab countries to revitalize the Palestinian Authority so it could be more effective in representing the Palestinians. “Almost every Arab country really wants to integrate Israel into the region to normalize relations…to provide security commitments and assurances so that Israel feels safer,” Blinken said during a panel discussion at the annual

January 10, 2024

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US supports concrete steps for Palestinian state

GAZA/ WESTERN NEIGHBORHOOD: Top US diplomat Anthony Blinken told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday that Washington supports “tangible steps” towards the creation of a Palestinian state. Abbas is later to discuss a “push for an immediate ceasefire” in talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the Red Sea port of Aqaba. As the US secretary of state arrived under tight security in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, protesters held signs reading “Stop the genocide”, “Free Palestine” and “Blinken out”. Blinken reiterated Washington’s longstanding position that a Palestinian state must stand alongside Israel,

January 7, 2024

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Diplomats are trying to prevent the disintegration of Gaza after 3 months of war

CAIRO/AMMAN/JERUSALEM: Top American and European diplomats urged Middle East leaders on Sunday to prevent the war in Gaza from spreading across the region, but three months into the conflict, more bloodshed has underscored the challenge as Israel presses ahead with its offensive. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, were making separate trips to the region to try to quell spillover from the war in Lebanon, the West Bank and the Red Sea shipping lanes, where the Houthis of Yemen aligned with Iran. said they would continue attacks until Israel halted its campaign

November 1, 2023

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US, others exploring options for Gaza’s post-Hamas future: Blinken

WASHINGTON: The United States and other countries are considering “a variety of possible permutations” for the future of the Gaza Strip if Hamas militants are removed from control, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Tuesday. Blinken told a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing that the status quo of the Palestinian group Hamas in charge of the densely populated enclave could not continue, but Israel did not want to rule Gaza either. Between those two positions were “a variety of potential transfers that we are looking at very carefully now, as are other countries,” Blinken said. What would make more

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