Blinken seeks to avert wider war, Israel says it is not fighting a single enemy
By Simon Lewis, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose ABU DHABI/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in the United ...
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The top US diplomat swept through the Middle East on Sunday, warning that the Gaza conflict could spread across the region without concerted peace efforts, although Israel's leader vowed to continue the war until Hamas was eliminated.
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -An Israeli air strike killed six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said on Sunday, as Israel said one its soldiers had been killed, during a visit to the region by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Israel said its aircraft fired on Palestinian militants who had attacked troops in the city of Jenin, while the Palestinian ministry said the strike targeted people who had gathered at the site, and eyewitnesses said the attack happened as Israeli forces were withdrawing.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Monday before heading on to Israel after warning that the Gaza war could spread across the region without concerted peace efforts, while Israel vowed to continue fighting until Hamas was eliminated. Blinken was in Jordan and Qatar on Sunday at the start of a five-day diplomatic effort in the Middle East seeking to avert a wider war in the region. Blinken said he would tell Israeli officials that it is imperative they do more to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza and that Palestinian civili...
The armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on Saturday that an Israeli soldier being held captive by the group in Gaza had been killed in an Israeli air strike that had also wounded some of his captors. In an audio speech broadcast by Al Araby television, a spokesperson for the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades group said the air strike took place following a failed attempt by Israeli commandos to free the soldier. The Israeli military spokesperson's office declined to comment.