Blinken retourne au Moyen-Orient en vue d'un accord sur Gaza

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Le secrétaire d'Etat américain Antony Blinken est parti dimanche pour le Moyen-Orient dans l'espoir d'y faire avancer les tractations sur une nouvelle trêve entre Israël et le Hamas à Gaza en échange d'une libération des otages israéliens.  Ce cinquième déplacement dans la région depuis le début du conflit le 7 octobre intervient dans un contexte de tensions exacerbées par les frappes américaines visant des groupes pro-iraniens en Irak et en Syrie, ainsi que contre les Houthis au Yémen.  M. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left on Sunday for the Middle East in the hope

00:04 of advancing the negotiations on a new truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in exchange

00:08 for the release of Israeli hostages.

00:10 This fifth trip to the region since the beginning of the conflict on October 7 intervenes in

00:15 a context of exacerbated tensions by American strikes targeting pro-Iranian groups in Iraq

00:19 and Syria, as well as against the Yemeni houthis.

00:22 Mr. Blinken must in particular go to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Israel and the occupied

00:29 West Bank.

00:30 While saying he continues to support Israel's right to defend itself, the United States

00:34 is showing growing frustration towards Benjamin Netanyahu's Israeli government, some of whom

00:39 openly criticize US President Joe Biden, like the Minister of Extreme Right of National

00:45 Security, Itamar Ben-Gvyer.

00:46 Washington has also taken rare sanctions against extremist settlers accused of violence at

00:52 the meeting of Palestinians in West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel and where,

00:56 like President Biden, the situation is intolerable.

00:59 Negotiations are underway to reach a second truce, longer than that of a week that

01:05 allowed the release of a hundred hostages held in Gaza in exchange for Palestinians

01:09 held by Israel at the end of November.

01:10 More humanitarian aid.

01:11 Representatives from Qatar, Egypt, Israel and the United States met a week ago in Paris

01:19 to discuss a proposal for a truce agreement in the Gaza Strip.

01:22 It provides a six-week truce with the release of 200 to 300 Palestinians held in Israel

01:28 in exchange for 35 to 40 hostages, according to a source from Hamas, a classified terrorist

01:33 organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union.

01:36 Speaking last Monday, after meeting with Qatar's Prime Minister Mohamed Ben Abdel-Rahman

01:42 Al-Thani, Mr. Blinken had evoked real hope on this subject.

01:46 But the bullet is in the Hamas' camp, said Sunday the National Security Adviser of the

01:52 White House, Jake Sullivan.

01:54 According to Israeli authorities, 132 hostages are still captive, of which 28 would be dead.

02:00 In Israel, the head of American diplomacy will also put pressure on to increase the

02:05 supply of food, water and medicine in the Gaza Strip, devastated after nearly four

02:10 months of intensive Israeli bombing.

02:12 It will be one of his main priorities when he meets the Israeli government,

02:18 said Mr. Sullivan, according to whom the needs of the Palestinian population are at the heart

02:22 of the American approach.

02:23 Mr. Blinken must start this new tour by Saudi Arabia on Monday.

02:29 He should meet there the heir prince Mohamed Ben Salman, the leader of the kingdom, while

02:34 Washington is trying to resume discussions on a possible normalization of relations

02:39 between Riyadh and Israel, suspended after the start of the war.

02:42 Early January, in Saudi Arabia already, Mr. Blinken had spoken of a clear interest in pursuing

02:48 this goal, which Riyadh conditions however at the end of the war in Gaza and the creation

02:53 of a Palestinian state.

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