Blinken heads to Israel to press for ‘immediate’ truce in Gaza war

Blinken told reporters in Cairo on Thursday “gaps are narrowing” and that the United States was “continuing to push for an agreement in Doha”.”It’s difficult to get there, but I believe it is still possible,” Blinken said.He warned that an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city where around 1.5 million people are hemmed in by the Egyptian border, would be “a mistake”.”There is no place for the civilians amassed in Rafah to get out of harm’s way,” Blinken said.”There is a better way to deal with the ongoing threat posed by Hamas.”‘Immediate, durable ceasefire’The United States will submit its draft resolution to the UN Security Council on Friday, a spokesman for the US representative to the world body said.The US resolution “will unequivocally support ongoing diplomatic efforts aimed at securing an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as part of a hostage deal… we will be bringing this Resolution for a vote on Friday morning,” Nate Evans, spokesman for US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said in a statement.



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