06 November 2023 - US Secretary of State meets with Palestinian and Iraqi leaders in bid to contain Gaza war
Blinken shuttles from the West Bank to Iraq trying to contain the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war
Matthew Lee (AP News, 06/11/2023)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, trying to assure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the Biden administration was intensifying efforts to ease the plight of Gaza’s civilians and insisting that Palestinians must have a main say in whatever comes next for the territory after the conflict.
Blinken meets Palestinian Authority President Abbas in West Bank amid growing settler violence
Jennifer Hansler (CNN, 05/11/2023)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday amid escalating settler violence in the West Bank following Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7.
Blinken’s Mideast tour to seek support for postwar Gaza
Paula Andrés (Politico, 05/11/2023)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is trying to build support among Israel’s Middle Eastern neighbors to plan a postwar future for Gaza, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu rejected the U.S.’s calls for a humanitarian pause.