RAMALLAH: Israel kept bombing Gaza on Wednesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken met the head of the Palestinian Authority, which Washington hopes could govern the coastal territory after the war ends.
As the US secretary of state arrived under tight security in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, protesters held up signs that read “Stop the genocide”, “Free Palestine” and “Blinken out”.
Blinken then met Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who was later set to discuss a “push for an immediate cease-fire” in talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba.
After meeting Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, Blinken will fly to Bahrain for talks with King Hamad on preventing a regional escalation of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
