United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Egypt’s president on Feb 6 as part of a 48-hour, four-nation flurry of shuttle diplomacy in search of a ceasefire in the Gaza war, while Israel pressed its onslaught in the south of the enclave.
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Egypt ’s president on Feb 6 as part of a 48-hour, four-nation flurry of shuttle diplomacy in search of a ceasefire in the Gaza war, while Israel pressed its onslaught in the south of the enclave. Israel said its forces had killed dozens of Palestinian gunmen throughout Gaza in the past 24 hours, with fighting focused on Khan Younis in the south, and a threatened assault looming in a nearby border town teeming with displaced people.
Mr Blinken arrived in Egypt after a stop in Saudi Arabia, and departed for Qatar after Cairo. He is meeting the main countries acting as mediators in the Gaza war.before Israeli forces storm Gaza’s southern fringes, where over a million displaced people are sheltering. It was Mr Blinken’s first visit to the region since Washington brokered an offer, with Israeli input, for the war’s first extended ceasefir
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