Published January 06,2025
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The US’ outgoing Joe Biden administration is “working intensely” to attain a cease-fire within the Palestinian besieged enclave of Gaza inside the subsequent two weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated Monday.
“We very much want to bring this over the finish line in the next two weeks,” Blinken advised a news convention within the South Korean capital Seoul, pointing to Jan. 20 when the Biden administration leaves the White House.
He stated there had been an “intensified engagement” together with by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on reaching a deal, “but we are yet to see agreement on final points.”
Blinken paid a two-day journey to South Korea, the place he held talks along with his counterpart Cho Tae-yul, as a part of his closing go to earlier than the Jan. 20 inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump.
Later the duo addressed a joint news convention.
“We need Hamas to make the final necessary decisions to complete the agreement and to fundamentally change the circumstance for the hostages, getting them out, for people in Gaza, bringing them relief, and for the region as a whole, creating an opportunity to actually move forward to something better, more secure for everyone involved,” Blinken stated.
“If we don’t get it (cease-fire) across the finish line in the next two weeks, I’m confident that it will get its completion at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later,” stated Blinken.
The Israeli military has continued a genocidal conflict on Gaza that has killed greater than 45,800 folks, largely ladies and youngsters, since a cross-border assault by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, regardless of a UN Security Council decision calling for a right away cease-fire.
In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for conflict crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity in Gaza.
Israel additionally faces a genocide case on the International Court of Justice for its lethal conflict on the enclave.
Source: www.anews.com.tr