US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel and Jordan at the end of the week, the Department of State has announced, as tensions remain high amid Israel’s escalating war against Hamas in Gaza, APA reports citing Aljazeera.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Wednesday that Blinken will begin his trip on Friday, his second to the region in less than a month, with a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the itinerary.
Israel has rejected growing calls for a ceasefire and has said that it is fighting to topple the Palestinian group Hamas, which launched a deadly attack on southern Israel on October 7 that Israeli authorities say killed more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians.
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