Israel backs US truce proposal, Hamas must now do same: Blinken

 Israel backs US truce proposal, Hamas must now do same: Blinken

Israel backs US truce proposal, Hamas must now do same: Blinken

Israel backs US truce proposal, Hamas must now do same: Blinken US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israeli State head Benjamin Netanyahu guaranteed him help for a US proposition to connect holes on arriving at a Gaza truce, and squeezed Hamas to concur.

Following three hours of talks with the head of the state in Jerusalem, Blinken said that Netanyahu guaranteed Israel would send a group to talks planned to continue this week, intervened by Egypt and Qatar.

"In an exceptionally productive gathering with State leader Netanyahu today, he affirmed to me that Israel acknowledges the spanning proposition. He upholds it. It's presently officeholder on Hamas to do likewise," Blinken told correspondents later in Tel Aviv.

"What I would agree to Hamas and to its administration is, assuming it really thinks often about the Palestinian nation that it indicates to some way or another address, then it will approve of this understanding, and it will deal with clear understandings about how to carry out it," Blinken said, a day after Hamas blamed Netanyahu for hindering the intervention endeavors.

Hamas had approached go-betweens to execute a system framed in late May by US President Joe Biden. The development said the crossing-over proposition "answers Netanyahu's circumstances" and leaves him "completely liable for upsetting the endeavors of the middle people."

In any case, Blinken said: "The single speediest, best, best method for freeing the awful experience the Palestinians that was prompted by Hamas' assault on October 7 and the conflict that followed is to finish this understanding."

Blinken said he would go to Egypt and Qatar on Tuesday and meet with the heads of the two Bedouin countries, which have worked with the US on a truce plan.

He said he expected to hear from the Middle Easterner accomplices the most recent on Hamas' situation and he made light of the aggressors' analysis of the connecting proposition.