Blinken: "Building on the truce. Forward with the reopening of the consulate in Jerusalem"

• He holds the truce between Israel and Hamas.

  The UN calls for full compliance with the ceasefire

• Israel-Hamas, Unicef: "In eleven days of conflict 65 Palestinian children killed and 2 in Israel"

• Netanyahu on truce: "We are not with stopwatch in hand".

  Biden: "Immediately de-escalation"

• Gaza, the UN Security Council calls for full compliance with the truce

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May 25, 2021 "The US goes ahead with the reopening of the consulate in Jerusalem". This was stated by the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, at the end of the meeting with the president of the Palestinian Authority,

This morning Blinken landed in Tel Aviv for a 3-day visit to the Middle East with the aim of consolidating the truce between Israel and Hamas that began last Friday after 11 days of tremendous crossfire and the deaths of over 200 people including over 60 children. .

In Jerusalem he met with Israeli Prime Minister

and in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian President

, which, however, does not have control of the Gaza Strip, where the

Islamists govern the territory

. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel's response to a possible Hamas violation of the truce will be "very powerful".

The head of US diplomacy said that it was necessary to "build on the truce" reached between Israel and the Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip to "avoid a return to violence". "We know that to avoid a resurgence of violence we must use the truce created to address a long list of problems and challenges," Blinken added at the joint press conference.

However, there is still "a lot of work" to be done to "restore trust" between Israelis and Palestinians and "there is a lot of work to be done to restore hope, respect and some trust between the two sides. where other options lead and this should spur us to redouble our efforts to preserve peace, "Blinken said. "We will work closely with our partners, with everyone, to ensure that Hamas does not benefit from the aid that has arrived for the reconstruction" of the Gaza Strip after 11 days of fighting with Israel.

And it reaffirms Washington's position, namely that of fully supporting

and that at the same time it will ask Congress to approve an allocation of 75 million to help the Palestinians. With these words he starts the reopening of the consulate in Jerusalem.