Tel Aviv | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted a ceasefire proposal to halt the war in Gaza and the next step was for “Hamas to say yes”, putting the onus on the group to end the 10-month conflict even as violence continued.
Mr Blinken, on his ninth trip to the region since Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, called the proposed accord “a bridging agreement” and acknowledged that not everything was spelt out in detail.
