2024-02-06T12:14:48+00:00
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/ US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, discussed in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Tuesday, ways to make progress in reaching an agreement brokered by Egypt and Qatar to establish a truce in Gaza and release detainees held by the Hamas movement.
Blinken left Riyadh on Tuesday morning, and his day is expected to be a marathon, as he visits Egypt and Qatar before heading to Israel to discuss negotiations to release detainees, plans related to Gaza for the post-war period, and prospects for normalizing relations between Arab countries and Israel.
This is Blinken’s fifth tour in the region since October 2023, at a time when the United States is moving forward with its campaign to respond to the factions allied with Iran that launch attacks, and last month killed 3 American soldiers at a military site in Jordan.
Washington believes that the potential truce to release the remaining hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas, classified as a terrorist movement, on October 7, and to stop the fighting in the Gaza Strip, is a key to progress in other challenges such as governing Gaza after the war, the path towards establishing a Palestinian state and reaching an agreement between Israel and Israel. And Saudi Arabia to normalize relations.
