'All parties must take steps to ease tensions. Escalation is not in anyone's interests,' Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in what he said was a 'critical moment,' called on parties in the Middle East to work to ease tensions as fears of a larger regional war mount after the killings last week of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas' top political leader in Iran.'We are engaged in intense diplomacy, pretty much round-the-clock, with a very simple message: All parties must refrain from escalation. All parties must take steps to ease tensions.
Commander Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla met with Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant and Israel Defense Force Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi to discuss 'the coordination of defense cooperation between the respective establishments and militaries,' according to an Israeli readout of the meeting.They also talked about 'ways to expand the international coalition facing aggressive activities by Iran and its proxies against Israel, and destabilizing the Middle East region.
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