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BLINKEN SAYS ISRAEL ACCEPTS GAZA PROPOSAL, URGES HAMAS TO DO SAME

By Humeyra Pamuk and Nidal Al-Mughrabi
August 20, 20242:14 AM GMT+2Updated 5 hours ago
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 * Blinken says meeting with Netanyahu 'very constructive'
 * U.S. demonstrators pledge pro-Palestinian protests
 * Negotiations to resume this week based on US bridging proposal
 * Medics report at least 30 Palestinians killed on Monday

TEL AVIV/CAIRO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said
on Monday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted a "bridging
proposal" presented by Washington to tackle disagreements blocking a ceasefire
deal in Gaza, and urged Hamas to do the same.
Blinken spoke to journalists after a day of meetings with Israeli officials,
including a 2-1/2-hour meeting with Netanyahu. The top U.S. diplomat had said
earlier that this push was probably the best and possibly last opportunity for a
deal.
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Talks in Qatar seeking a ceasefire and hostage return agreement last week paused
without a breakthrough, but were expected to resume this week based on the U.S.
proposal to bridge the gaps between Israel and Hamas.
Blinken's visit comes as U.S. President Joe Biden, opens new tab faces mounting
election-year pressure over his stance on the conflict, with his Democratic
party starting its national convention on Monday amid pro-Palestinian protests
and worries about Muslim and Arab American votes in swing states.
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However, with the Palestinian Islamist group announcing a resumption of suicide
bombing inside Israel after many years, and claiming responsibility for a blast
in Tel Aviv on Sunday night, and medics saying Israeli military strikes killed
at least 30 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Monday, there are few signs of
conciliation on the ground and fears of wider war.
"In a very constructive meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu today, he
confirmed to me that Israel accepts the bridging proposal - that he supports
it," Blinken told reporters in Tel Aviv.

"It's now incumbent on Hamas to do the same, and then the parties, with the help
of the mediators - the United States, Egypt and Qatar - have to come together
and complete the process of reaching clear understandings about how they'll
implement the commitments that they've made under this agreement."


DIFFICULT NEGOTIATIONS

Despite U.S. expressions of optimism and Netanyahu's office describing the
meeting as positive, both Israel and Hamas have signalled that any deal will be
difficult.

Months of on-off talks have circled the same issues, with Israel saying the war
can only end with the destruction of Hamas as a military and political force and
Hamas saying it will only accept a permanent, not temporary, ceasefire.
There are disagreements over Israel's continued military presence inside Gaza,
particularly along the border with Egypt, the free movement of Palestinians
inside the territory, and the identity and number of prisoners to be freed in a
swap.
Hamas officials accused Washington of favouring Israel.
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"When Blinken says that the Israelis agreed and then the Israelis say that there
is an updated proposal, this means that the Americans are subject to Israeli
pressure and not the other way around. We believe that it is a manoeuvre that
gives the Israelis more time," senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Reuters.
The current war in Gaza began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed into
Israeli communities, killing around 1,200 people and abducting about 250
hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel's military has since levelled swathes of the Palestinian enclave, driving
nearly all of its 2.3 million people from their homes, giving rise to deadly
hunger and disease and killing at least 40,000 people, according to Palestinian
health authorities.


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Blinken, on his ninth trip to the region since the war began, met Israeli
President Isaac Herzog and Netanyahu on Monday. He later met Defence Minister
Yoav Gallant and is due also to visit Egypt and Qatar in the coming days.
Egyptian security sources said further ceasefire talks in Cairo this week were
contingent on agreement over a security mechanism for the so-called Philadelphia
Corridor between Egypt and Gaza. The U.S. has proposed an international presence
in the area, a suggestion that could be acceptable if it was limited to a
maximum of six months, the sources said.
In Israel, families of hostages - who have staged protests urging a deal - spoke
out again on Monday.
"Don't sacrifice my daughter and the dozens of helpless hostages," said Ayelet
Levy-Shachar on Kan Radio. Her daughter Naama, 20, was captured at an army base.
Some at a protest in Tel Aviv held U.S. flags and signs saying "Hostage deal
now," "Hey Joe! Mr Biden, help us save them," and "They have no time."
Inside Gaza, Palestinians said they had little optimism that Blinken's visit
would bring a ceasefire.
"They are lying just to destroy us more and more. Kill us and kill our children,
starve us and make us homeless. Blinken is useless, his visit will harm the
Palestinian people," said Hanan Abu Hamid, who was displaced from her home in
Rafah.
The conflict has put the entire Middle East region on edge, triggering months of
border clashes between Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, and
threatening a wider escalation drawing in major powers.

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Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Maytaal Angel in Jerusalem, and Nidal
al-Mughrabi, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Adam Makary and Enas Alashray in Cairo;
Additional reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu in Ankara; Writing by Angus McDowall,
Alison Williams and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Mark Heinrich, Conor Humphries
and Rosalba O'Brien

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Humeyra Pamuk is a senior foreign policy correspondent based in Washington DC.
She covers the U.S. State Department, regularly traveling with U.S. Secretary of
State. During her 20 years with Reuters, she has had postings in London, Dubai,
Cairo and Turkey, covering everything from the Arab Spring and Syria's civil war
to numerous Turkish elections and the Kurdish insurgency in the southeast. In
2017, she won the Knight-Bagehot fellowship program at Columbia University’s
School of Journalism. She holds a BA in International Relations and an MA on
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Palestinian-Israeli conflict including several wars and the signing of the first
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