The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, expressed the need to succeed in a cease-fire settlement and the discharge of hostages in Gaza, on the “end line” of the time period of the Biden administration, within the remaining two weeks.
The US Secretary of State was responding to a journalist's query, at a press convention in South Korea, whether or not an armistice settlement is shut.
The Reuters company notes that Israeli diplomats are already in Qatar to debate the small print of an settlement, with mediators from Qatar and Egypt.
Nonetheless, it’s unclear how shut the 2 sides are, provided that there isn’t any signal that both aspect will budge from its core calls for, which have prevented a deal from being reached for greater than a yr.
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