2024-01-08 22:31:08
Israeli strikes on Monday above the town of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip. BASSAM MASOUD/REUTERS
DECRYPTION – Secretary of State Antony Blinken was expected Monday evening in Tel Aviv.
Correspondent in Jerusalem
This is his fourth official visit since the start of the war, triggered three months ago by the Hamas terrorist attack: the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was due to arrive in Israel on Monday. A stage preceded by a series of stopovers across the region: Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia… He must then go to Ramallah, to the Palestinian Authority, before heading to Cairo.
So many countries but only one goal for the diplomat: to prevent the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip from “metastasis” . With this objective, it is a question of calming things down along the Lebanese border, where the risk of a new front opening continues to grow, while trying to improve the lot of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. From the start of the conflict, the United States assumed its role as Israel’s best ally.
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