Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia for his 11th visit to the region this year

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The U.S. secretary state Antony Blinken has arrived in Saudi Arabia after urging Israel to seek a truce deal with Hamas.  Blinken has said that ‘there are two things left to do, get the hostages home and bring the war to an end with an understanding of what will follow.’

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00:00Yes, Jamie, and it's probably not by chance that it is happening in Saudi Arabia, as a

00:06regional normalization deal, which is led by Saudi Arabia on the Arab side, could be

00:14perhaps the biggest prize awaiting Israel if the war comes to an end, if some kind of

00:20a ceasefire deal and then a normalization deal eventually is reached.

00:25And that is what Secretary of State Blinken is trying to do, while in Saudi Arabia talking

00:31about the achievements, what Israel was able to win, to achieve on the battleground.

00:39Let's listen to what Secretary Blinken had to say.

00:43Israel has achieved most of its strategic objectives when it comes to Gaza, all with

00:48the idea of making sure that October 7th could never happen again.

00:52In the space of a year, it's managed to dismantle Hamas's military capacity, it's destroyed

00:58much of its arsenal, it's eliminated its senior leadership, including, most recently, Yahya

01:03Sinwar.

01:04This has covered the cost, great cost, to Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

01:10Now is the time to turn those successes into an enduring strategic success.

01:20So maybe if Israel achieved all that on the battleground, this is probably what Secretary

01:26Blinken is thinking.

01:27Now it's time for the war to come to an end, to have a ceasefire deal, to bring the hostages

01:32back and perhaps a bit further on to achieve a normalization deal in the region with Saudi

01:38Arabia.

01:39This is something that the administration is well aware that the Israeli government,

01:44especially Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is something that Netanyahu would really be

01:49interested in.

01:50Northern Israel has confirmed the killing of Hezbollah's presumed successor.

02:00Hisham Safi Adin was the successor of Hassan Nasrallah and it took Israel three weeks to

02:06confirm that he was killed.

02:09Israel was basically saying that he was most probably killed as no one could have walked

02:14out alive from that bunker that was hit where Hisham Safi Adin was in.

02:19But only yesterday came the confirmation after his body was found and in those three weeks

02:26Israeli officials, whether it's the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister or the Chief

02:30of Staff, they said time and time again, we Israel have not only killed Hassan Nasrallah,

02:36we've killed the successor and the successor of his successor, meaning Israel was quite

02:40sure that this man was killed.

02:42The confirmation coming only yesterday and as far as Israel is concerned, it will continue

02:48to kill all the leadership of Hezbollah.

02:50This is one of the main aims of this military operation, not only acting in southern Lebanon

02:55through ground forces, but hitting targets in Beirut again and again, dismantling Hezbollah

03:00infrastructures and killing its leadership.

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