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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Blinken meets Netanyahu in renewed US push for Gaza ceasefire

Blinken (left) and Netanyahu sit around a coffee table with US and Israeli flags on it
Blinken also called for Israel to boost humanitarian assistance into Gaza, during a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Photograph: Haim Zach (GPO)/EPA

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has arrived in Israel to encourage efforts to revive the stalled Gaza ceasefire negotiations after Israel’s killing of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, last week.

Meeting the Israeli prime minister, Blinken urged Benjamin Netanyahu to capitalise on the death of the Hamas leader by securing the release of the 7 October attack hostages and ending the conflict in Gaza.

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