January 10, 2024
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,


