U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will step up efforts to secure a truce in Gaza during meetings in the Middle East starting Monday, in what could be a final chance to persuade Israel to call off an attack on Rafah.
The White House said Sunday that Israel has agreed to hear out its concerns. Israel has ¡°assured us that they won¡¯t go into Rafah until we¡¯ve had a chance to really share our perspectives and our concerns with them,¡± John Kirby, spokesman for the White House¡¯s National Security Council, told ABC News. ¡°So we¡¯ll see where that goes.¡±
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged U.S. President Joe Biden to intervene, telling a special edition of the World Economic Forum in Riyadh that the U.S. ¡°is the only country capable¡± of stopping an Israel invasion of Rafah.
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