Express analysis | Blinken’s new trip in the face of fading hope for a ceasefire
On his eleventh trip to the region during the conflict, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel this Tuesday in an attempt to revive faded hope for a possible ceasefire in Gaza while Israeli attacks continue. in Lebanon. As a backdrop to the visit of the head of American diplomacy, the 101 hostages who have remained in the Palestinian enclave for more than a year and the rampant humanitarian crisis in a territory that, in addition, has accumulated more than 42,600 deaths.
Blinken will meet, among others, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu less than a week after Israeli troops killed Hamas leader Yahia Sinwar in Gaza. That death has raised expectations that a truce could be reached that would allow the captives to be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, although the occupation troops continue their attacks in the Strip with intensity, where this Tuesday they ordered a new forced evacuation of residents of the northern town of Beit Lahia.
Another of the issues that the two administrations have been discussing throughout the month of October is the response that Israel will give to Iran’s missile attack on the 1st, which they have announced as “lethal” and “surprising” despite the fact that, at the same time, It could not target either the nuclear program or energy infrastructure, according to a conversation between Netanyahu and President Joe Biden on the 8th.