The visit to Israel comes amid upheaval within the government as Benny Gantz’s departure from the war cabinet threatens Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power and adds to domestic political pressure piling on him.
After a particularly violent weekend in the region that saw Israeli hostages rescued, hundreds of Palestinians killed and a high-profile Israeli government resignation, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo on Monday for his latest Middle East tour.
Blinken is then expected to visit Jordan and Qatar, where he will have to address the ire of the Arab nations regarding an Israeli operation on Friday night during which Israeli troops rescued four hostages in Gaza and killed nearly 300 Palestinians. In a broadcast Sunday night, Gantz lambasted Netanyahu for his “empty promises” of “total victory,” instead of focusing on a hostage deal, working on a day-after plan for Gaza and taking action against Lebanon’s Hezbollah in the north.
On Sunday, the director of the U.N. World Food Program said the organization has paused its distribution of humanitarian aid due to concerns about the safety of staffers. Cindy McCain told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that two of the program’s warehouses were “rocketed” in Gaza and that a staffer was injured.Getting aid into Gaza “remains very difficult,” said Scott Anderson, deputy director of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency that aids Palestinians.
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