The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenis not welcome in the Occupied West Bank. Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated this Wednesday against the diplomat’s visit upon his arrival in Ramallah to meet with the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas. After pressuring Israeli leaders the day before to pave the way for a Palestinian state, Blinken has discussed with Abbas the responsibility of reforming and improve your governancewhile they have spoken about plans for govern a postwar Gaza. For his part, the king of Jordan, Abdullah IIhas summoned Abbas and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el Sisi, on the shores of the Red Sea, in the Jordanian city of Aqaba, to discuss the “dangerous events” taking place in Gaza, according to the Jordanian royal palace
Abbas has made it clear to Blinken: the Palestinians will not accept “Israeli plans” to keep Gaza separate from the West Bank, according to the official WAFA news agency. “The Gaza Strip is an integral part of the State of Palestine,” said the president. He has also warned about the danger of measures taken by “the Israeli occupation authorities aimed at displace the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, including Jerusalemwhich were revealed by statements issued by Israeli ministers and officials, calling for the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their land.” This same week, Israel’s Communications Minister, Shlomo Karhidefended on television the practice of “encourage voluntary migration [desde Gaza] and keep coercing until they say ‘we want’ [irnos]'” through “war.”
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Abdullah, Abbas and Al Sisi have agreed that more international pressure is needed to end the fighting in Gaza and allow more aid to enter the enclave, according to the Egyptian president’s office in a statement. Any attempt to “separate the paths” between the future of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip must be rejected, they have declared. In turn, both Egypt and Jordan have given their support to Abbas’s position, firmly rejecting any attempt to liquidate a future Palestinian stateaccording to a statement published by the Jordanian Government.
Blinken ends his visit to the region this Thursday in El Cairowhere on Wednesday a Israeli delegation for a new round of talks. The Hebrew representatives want to resume dialogue to achieve the return of the 132 hostages who have remained in Gaza in the hands of Hamas and other Palestinian militias for more than three months. Negotiations were halted by the assassination of Hamas number two Saleh al Arouri in Beirut last week. Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, the bombings and ground incursions have not stopped. In the last 24 hours, at least 147 Palestinians in the center and south of the enclave. The member of the war cabinet, Benny Gantzhas confirmed that “effective control of Gaza by Hamas does not exist.”