PALESTINE
Fri 07 Jun 2024 1:11 pm - Jerusalem Time
Blinken will visit Israel next week in light of the failure to reach a deal with Hamas
US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is expected to visit Israel at the beginning of next week, in light of expectations that the “National Camp” bloc headed by Benny Gantz will withdraw from the emergency government, and against the backdrop of not reaching an agreement on stopping the war on Gaza and exchanging prisoners.
This will be Blinken's eighth visit to Israel since the beginning of the war on Gaza, eight months ago. Blinken visited Israel last month in an attempt to prevent the invasion of Rafah.
Blinken will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who denied the plan that US President Joe Biden reviewed in his speech a few days ago and said that it was an Israeli plan. But Netanyahu denied what Biden said about stopping the war, after Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir said that they opposed stopping the war and threatened to topple the government if Netanyahu agreed to it, and Ben Gvir described it as a "defeatist plan."
In the meantime, the Biden administration is trying to advance an agreement that would lead to stopping the war in the Gaza Strip and lead to a cessation of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, before the US presidential elections, next November, as Biden faces unprecedented internal opposition and criticism, which may lead to preventing his access. To a second term in the White House.
Blinken had warned Israel, following previous visits, of political isolation in the world, which is now being achieved through a boycott by European countries and the recognition by some of them of a Palestinian state with occupied Jerusalem as its capital, and in light of the possibility of international arrest warrants being issued by the International Criminal Court against Netanyahu and the Minister of Security, Yoav. Gallant.
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Blinken will visit Israel next week in light of the failure to reach a deal with Hamas