The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, reiterated this Saturday that The United States supports “humanitarian pauses” in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, but They reject calls for a “ceasefire” required by Arab countries.
“The United States believes that all of these efforts will be facilitated by these humanitarian pauses,” Blinken said at a news conference in Amman about efforts to save Palestinian civilians and accelerate the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip.
The head of North American diplomacy spoke with his counterparts from Egypt and Jordan, after a ministerial meeting in Amman with five Arab countries.
The Jordanian Minister responsible for Foreign Affairs, Ayman Al-Safadi, called for “an end to the war” in Gaza, referring to Israel’s “war crimes.”
“We do not accept the notion of self-defense.”he stated, while his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Choukri, demanded a “immediate and unconditional ceasefire”.
For his part, Blinken reiterated that the United States believes that such a ceasefire would only “keep Hamas in its place,” exposing the divergent perceptions of the conflict between the United States, Israel, on the one hand, and Arab countries, on the other. .
The US Secretary of State will travel to Türkiye this Sunday and Monday as part of his visit to the Middle East, the State Department announced.
On October 7, Hamas – classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel – carried out an attack of unprecedented proportions in Israeli territory, killing more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, and more than 200 hostages. . who was held captive in the Gaza Strip.
Then began a Strong retaliation by Israel. to that poor Palestinian enclave, since 2007 controlled by Hamaswith cuts in the supply of food, water, electricity and fuel and daily bombingsfollowed by a ground offensive that completed the siege of Gaza City.
Source: TSF
