The United States' Foreign Minister Antony Blinken has met with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, during a trip where he is working to try to get an agreement on a ceasefire.
Blinken is on his eighth trip to the region since the Gaza war broke out in October. During the meeting with Netanyahu, Blinken underscored the United States' unwavering commitment to Israel's security, according to The Times of Israel.
Blinken is once again urging terrorist-listed Hamas to accept the proposal for a ceasefire.
The Foreign Minister says that Israel has accepted the proposal. Netanyahu, however, has expressed scepticism.
At the end of May, the United States' President Joe Biden presented a proposal for a new ceasefire in Gaza. Neither Israel nor Hamas has, however, given a final answer regarding their stance on the proposal.
Earlier on Monday, Blinken was in Cairo and met with mediator country Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. There, talks were held behind closed doors where "joint efforts to achieve a ceasefire and exchange of hostages and prisoners" were discussed together with Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, according to a statement from the presidency.
Blinken will also travel to Jordan and Qatar.
