“Hamas has before it an extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous proposal from Israel,” Blinken said in Riyadh at the World Economic Forum.
“They have to make a decision, and they have to do it quickly (…), and “I hope they make the right decision,” he said of Hamas leaders.
Mr. Blinken also reiterated, on the eve of a trip to Israel, his country’s opposition to an Israeli offensive on the overpopulated town of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
“We have not yet seen a plan that allows us to believe that civilians can be effectively protected,” Mr. Blinken told a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Riyadh.
He also believed that diplomacy had prevented the war between Israel and Hamas from spreading outside the Gaza Strip.
“We came very close to an escalation or expansion of the conflict, and I think through very focused and very determined efforts we were able to avoid that,” Mr. Blinken said.
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