US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv on Friday. Meeting expected to be tense with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Blinken is on his sixth tour in the region since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7. He is expected to stress the urgent need to increase humanitarian aid entering the besieged Strip and to urge Israel to refrain from invading Rafah in the far south of the Gaza Strip, which is crowded with displaced people. Netanyahu fears pressure over prisoner exchange deal, Israeli Channel 12 reports.