After the killing of the Hamas leader, Antony Blinken said a Gaza ceasefire is essential to prevent the conflict from spreading to the rest of the region.
“We’ve been working from day one not only to try to get to a better place in Gaza but also to prevent the conflict from spreading, whether it’s the north with Lebanon and Hezbollah, whether it’s the Red Sea with the Houthis, whether it’s Iran, Syria, Iraq, you name it,” Blinken told a forum in Singapore.
“A big key to trying to make sure that doesn’t happen, and that we can move to a better place, is getting the ceasefire.”
Qatar – a vital mediator in truce talks which also hosts Hamas’s political leadership that included Haniyeh – has questioned the future of negotiations in the wake of Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination.
Blinken spoke with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and emphasised “the importance of continuing to work to reach a ceasefire”, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.
Source: AlJazeera
