Blitz Bureau
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ended to his ninth visit to the Middle East on August 21 without reaching a peace deal, saying Israel and Hamas need to keep working at an agreement for a ceasefire.
After traveling to Israel earlier this week, where he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted a bridging proposal put forward by negotiators from the U.S., Qatar and Egypt, Blinken met with officials in Cairo and Doha.
“We’re engaged every single day with Israel, and our Qatari and Egyptian partners are engaged with Hamas, and over the coming days we are going to do everything possible to, one, get Hamas on board with the bridging proposal, and then to make sure that both parties work on and agree to necessary details of implementation that would allow everything to go forward,” he said before leaving Doha.
