GAZA/AMMAN - Arab leaders publicly pressed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday to secure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Palestinians said an Israeli air strike killed at least 15 people in a United Nations-run school being used as a shelter.
In a rare open display of disagreement, the United States’ top diplomat pushed back as he stood next to his Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts at a press conference, saying a ceasefire would only let Hamas militants regroup.
World and regional powers have failed to reach any consensus on how to deal with the escalating conflict in the four weeks since Israel and Hamas went to war on Oct 7, when the Islamist militant Palestinian group raided Israel from Gaza, in a rampage Israel says killed 1,400 people, with more than 240 others taken hostage.
Israel has since struck Gaza from the air, imposed a siege and launched a ground assault, stirring global alarm at humanitarian conditions in the enclave, Gaza health officials said on Saturday, killing more than 9,488 Palestinians.
Mr Blinken met the Saudi, Qatari, Emirati, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers in Amman. “Right now we have to make sure that this war stops,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told the press conference afterwards.
Mr Blinken said all were agreed on the need for peace and that the current status quo in Gaza could not hold, but he acknowledged there were differences between Washington and its allies.
“A ceasefire now would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on Oct 7,” said Mr Blinken, who was on his second trip to the region since Israel and Hamas went to war.
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