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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken begins Middle East trip by urging ‘calm’ between Israel and Palestine

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pictured in Cairo on January 30

(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a trip to the Middle East by calling for calm beween Israeli and Palestinian forces amid flaring violence.

Mr Blinken’s visit was planned prior to the heightened unrest, which has seen dozens of people killed this month across the two sides.

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