Joel Gehrke is foreign affairs reporter for the Washington Examiner, with an emphasis on U.S. competition with China and Russia, Middle East policy following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the crisis in Venezuela. Previously, he covered domestic politics for National Review Online.
Israel must not reoccupy the Gaza Strip or annex any Palestinian territory after the war against Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned following a meeting with leading democratic powers.
“I know it’s hard to look ahead in this moment,” Blinken said after a meeting with his counterparts across the G7, a block of the world’s leading industrialized democracies. “It is the aim of terrorists to sow chaos, to destroy hope, to destroy lives, and, through human despair, grow their ranks and hijack the political future of the Palestinians. We cannot and we will not let them succeed.”
“At the end of this war, not only will Hamas no longer be in Gaza, but the territory of Gaza will also decrease,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said last month.
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