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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reportedly postponed a visit to the Middle East over heightened safety considerations within the area and a attainable retaliatory strike from Iran towards Israel.
Blinken’s journey, initially scheduled for Tuesday, was delayed over “uncertainty about the situation,” Axios reported, citing two unnamed sources.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a information convention on the State Department on March 13, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The delayed journey comes forward of deliberate cease-fire talks later this week after greater than 10 months of preventing between Israel and Hamas terrorists within the Gaza Strip.
Hamas fired two rockets aimed toward Tel Aviv on Tuesday whereas Israel launched separate lethal airstrikes in Gaza.
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Despite the continued violence, U.S. officers stated Monday they anticipated the talks to renew Thursday as deliberate.
The leaders of Britain, France and Germany on Monday urged Iran and its allies to chorus from retaliatory assaults towards Israel in response to the assassination of a prime Hamas commander in Tehran final month.
Smoke billows after Israel launched an airstrike on the Al Mughraqa space within the Gaza Strip, on April 14, 2024. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu through Getty Images)
Israel was instantly blamed for the assassination after pledging to kill Ismail Haniyeh and different Hamas leaders over the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 assault on the Jewish state, which killed 1,200 individuals and noticed tons of extra taken hostage.
The Palestinian dying toll is nearing 40,000 individuals, per figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry.
European leaders have additionally backed a push by mediators from the U.S., Qatar and Egypt to dealer an settlement to finish the Israel-Hamas battle.
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Mediators have spent months making an attempt to get either side to conform to a three-phase plan through which Hamas would launch the remaining hostages captured in its Oct. 7 assault in alternate for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and Israel would withdraw from Gaza.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
