Blinken Arrives in Israel with ‘Serious Proposal’ for Hostage Deal, ‘Expanding’ Truce
February 7, 2024
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived late Tuesday evening for a visit to discuss what he called a “serious proposal” for a deal in which Hamas would release the remaining 136 Israeli hostages in exchange for a long-term pause to the war in Gaza.
The visit will be Blinken’s sixth since the war began with the Hamas terror attack of October 7, in which the terrorist group murdered roughly 1,200 people in Israel — often in brutal fashion — and abducted 243 others as hostages in Gaza.