Iran Press/ America: US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank from Sunday to Tuesday to discuss heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as well as the war in Ukraine with regional leaders, the State Department said.
The top US diplomat's visit was announced just hours after Israeli commandos killed nine Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials, , stirring fear of further flare-ups after the largest single death toll in years of fighting.
In meetings with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas, Blinken will discuss Israeli-Palestinian relations and preserving the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, department spokesperson, Ned Price, said in a statement on Thursday.
At the same time, the authorities of the Zionist regime announced the extensive alert of the army of this regime near the Gaza border following the gathering of a group of Palestinians.
The Israeli regime's troops martyred at least nine Palestinians in one of the deadliest days in the occupied West Bank since Israeli raids intensified at the start of last year.
The Palestinian health ministry said that 20 others were wounded with live ammunition in the raid on the Jenin refugee camp on Thursday, which Palestinians have described as a “massacre,” Al Jazeera reported.
An elderly woman has been reported among the dead, according to Palestinian officials. Four of the injured are in critical condition. 219
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