US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that a post-war plan must be developed so that the residents of the Gaza Strip can live without the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), as he put it.

The US Secretary of State said that his country has been working for weeks and months to implement a ceasefire plan in Lebanon, stressing that by calming tensions in the region, the conflict in Gaza can be ended.

Blinken said, "Hamas relied on opening several fronts to support it, but the ceasefire in Lebanon will deprive it of this support."

Blinken stressed that his ministry is committed to working with the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump on a ceasefire in Gaza and other issues.

With absolute American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving about 149,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.