Ahead of visit to Israel, US's Blinken presses Hamas to accept new proposal for Gaza cease-fire
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April 26, 2024
CAIRO (AP) — The United States stepped up pressure for a cease-fire deal in Gaza on Monday as the secretary of state said a new proposal had been put to Hamas, whose officials were in Cairo talking to Egyptian mediators. Israeli airstrikes killed 26 people in Gaza's southernmost town of Rafah, according to hospital records.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, ahead of a visit to Israel this week, urged Hamas to accept the latest proposal, calling it "extraordinarily generous" on Israel's part.
The terms were not made public. But according to an Egyptian official and Israeli media, Israel h...
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