The tense back-and-forth came on the same day that Israel’s far-right finance minister announced the seizure of three square miles Palestinian land in the West Bank.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with demonstrators calling for the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas, outside the Kempinski Hotel in Tel Aviv on Friday. TEL AVIV — Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli leaders confronted each other on Friday about the future of the war in Gaza, as the top U.S. diplomat urged Israel not to invade a city packed with civilians, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defiantly declared that “we’ll do it by ourselves.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel’s five-month military campaign, which was launched in response to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks in which militants killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than 250 hostage. While Biden has summoned senior Israeli officials to Washington next week to outline U.S. concerns about a Rafah invasion and to suggest tactics that might target Hamas without major loss of civilian life, Netanyahu showed little sign Friday that he was about to relent.
In appealing for support, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the resolution reflected an effort to overcome council divisions. It marked the first time the United States has directly called for an “immediate” cease-fire. It also condemned Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.But calling the measure a “hypocritical initiative” that played into U.S.
The package would include a plan for how to administer Gaza and rebuild the bombarded territory, and Arab states would offer guarantees for Israel’s security. Saudi Arabia would normalize relations with Israel, a major step in Israel’s ties with the region. In return, Israeli leaders would have to agree to a two-state solution and to other steps that would boost the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority, which Netanyahu has long derided.
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