WASHINGTON, Oct 8 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said part of the motivation for Hamas’ latest attack on Israel may have been disrupting a potential normalising of...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a cause of the Hamas attack might be in response to Israel-Saudi normalisation talks. — Reuters picWASHINGTON, Oct 8 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said part of the motivation for Hamas’ latest attack on Israel may have been disrupting a potential normalising of Israel-Saudi Arabia ties and said Washington will announce new assistance for Israel today.
The attack by Hamas launched at dawn yesterday represented the biggest and deadliest incursion into Israel since Egypt and Syria launched a sudden assault in an effort to reclaim lost territory in the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last month he believed his country was on the cusp of peace with Saudi Arabia, predicting it could reshape the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s two holiest shrines, has long insisted on the Palestinians’ right to statehood as a condition of recognising Israel - something that many members of Netanyahu’s nationalist religious coalition have long resisted.
“We think it would be in both countries’ interests to continue to pursue this possibility,” US Deputy National Security adviser Jon Finer told Fox News Sunday.Blinken added the United States has also taken note of reports of several Americans killed and kidnapped in Israel and Washington is looking to verify the details and figures.
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