Blinken upon his arrival in the Egyptian capital today, Tuesday (French)
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Cairo, today, Tuesday, to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, while the United States works to make progress in reaching an agreement brokered by Egypt and Qatar to establish a truce in Gaza and release the hostages.
Blinken left Riyadh this morning, and his day is expected to be a marathon, as he visits Egypt and Qatar before heading to Israel to discuss hostage release negotiations, plans related to post-war Gaza, and prospects for normalizing relations between Arab countries and Israel.
Blinken's fifth tour in the region since last October comes at a time when the United States is moving forward with its campaign to respond to factions allied with Iran that launch attacks, and last January killed American forces at a military site in Jordan.
Washington believes that the potential truce to release the remaining detainees held by the resistance factions in Gaza is a key to progress in other challenges, such as governing Gaza after the war, the path towards establishing a Palestinian state, and reaching an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia to normalize relations.
Source: Reuters