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It was his third day of shuttle diplomacy aimed at trying to limit the destabilizing regional fallout from the Israel-Hamas war.Blinken meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. that the Biden administration was intensifying efforts to ease the plight of Gaza's civilians and insisting that Palestinians must have a main say in whatever comes next for the territory after the conflict.
“This is a process,” Blinken told reporters on the matter Sunday. “Israel has raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. We’ve got to answer those questions,” including how pauses would affect Hamas hostages."We’re working on exactly that.’’ Neither Blinken nor Abbas spoke as they greeted each other in front of cameras and their meeting ended without any public comment.
He said that “what we all agree” is that in shaping a future for Gaza, the West Bank and “ultimately” for a Palestinian state,"Palestinian voices have to be at the center of that. The Palestinian Authority is the representative of those voices so it’s important that it play a leading role.’’ U.S. officials believe that Netanyahu may soften his opposition to the pause idea if he can be convinced that it is in Israel’s strategic interests to ease the plight of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
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