Blinken arrives in Egypt on mission to shore up Gaza truce
Wednesday May 26 2021
Summary
In Cairo, Blinken is to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi before flying on to Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II.
Wednesday the United Sates was in the process of providing more than $360 million in assistance to the Palestinian people.
The latest military escalation started after clashes in Jerusalem s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam s third holiest site, which is also revered by Jews as the Temple Mount.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo Wednesday as he presses efforts to shore up an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday wrapped up a Mideast tour to bolster an Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, calling for regional cooperation to a…
Blinken Wraps Up Mideast Tour To Shore Up Gaza Truce By Kamal Taha with Emmanuel Parisse in Cairo
05/26/21 AT 3:00 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday wrapped up a Mideast tour to bolster an Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, calling for regional cooperation to avoid more harrowing violence .
Blinken met with both Israeli and Palestinian leaders during the two days of talks, throwing Washington s support behind the truce that ended 11 days of heavy Israeli bombing of Gaza and rocket fire from the impoverished coastal enclave into Israel. Palestinian volunteers sweep the rubble of buildings, recently destroyed by Israeli strikes, in Gaza City s Rimal district on May 25 Photo: AFP / MOHAMMED ABED
By Rami Ayyub, Jonathan Saul, Stephen Farrell and Zainah El-Haroun
HAIFA/JAFFA (Reuters) - Two days after Hamas and Israel began launching rockets and air strikes, Israel s president called a TV station to plead with his fellow Jews and the country s Arab minority not to turn on each other over the conflict.
Reuven Rivlin, who belongs to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s right-wing Likud Party, takes pride in the fact that his scholarly father translated the Koran from Arabic to Hebrew. Please stop this madness, he said on May 12. We are endangered by rockets that are being launched at our citizens and streets, and we are busying ourselves with a senseless civil war among ourselves.