JAKARTA - Senior Hamas officials urged the United States (US) to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza, ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's planned visit to the region to push for ceasefire efforts.
Blinken is scheduled to visit Egypt and Israel on Monday, June 10. He also aims to ensure war does not spread to Lebanon.
"We call on the US government to put pressure on stopping the war in Gaza and Hamas is ready to handle positively any initiative that could end the war," said senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri.
In the Middle East safari, Blinken is also scheduled to travel to Jordan and Qatar this week.
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He is scheduled to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo before traveling to Israel on Monday, June 10, evening, where he will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, according to the State Department's schedule.
Meanwhile, on Monday, June 9, Palestinians said Israeli tanks had moved further north through Shaboura, one of the most populous and populous strongholds in the city's heart.
Israeli tank troops have since seized the entire Gaza border with Egypt that stretches through Rafah to the Mediterranean coast and stormed many districts in the city of 280,000 people, causing about one million refugees who have been sheltering in Rafah to flee elsewhere.
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