Jennifer Hansler
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Covering the State Department, foreign policy & national security for @CNN. RTs≠endorsements & views are my own
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http://www.cnn.com/profiles/jennifer-hansler 21-01-2012 19:29:37
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The US is reviewing Hamas’ response to a ceasefire and hostage proposal “and discussing it with our partners in the region,” Matthew Miller said.
Miller on Monday afternoon said that the US received the response in the “last hour, 90 minutes.”
President Joe Biden will speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, sources familiar with the call tell Arlette Saenz & Sam Fossum
“All of them are linked together. None go forward without the others”
Latest on the ambitious and complicated mega-deal tying the US, Saudi, Israel, and a potential future Palestinian state.
From Becky Anderson, Mostafa Salem & me cnn.com/2024/05/02/mid…
.Secretary Antony Blinken held another round of high-stakes talks in Israel on Wednesday as the US seeks to ratchet up the pressure on Hamas to accept a ceasefire and hostage release deal, while also seeking to forestall an Israeli military offensive in Rafah cnn.com/2024/04/30/pol…
.Secretary Antony Blinken says he believes a hostage and ceasefire deal is “achievable because the Israelis put a strong proposal on the table.”
He says US wants to see agreement come together “in the coming days,” and the ball is in Hamas' court.
“No more excuses. The time to act is now”
The first shipments of aid to Gaza via Erez crossing are leaving from Jordan Tuesday, Secretary Antony Blinken says. He says there has been “real, important progress,” but “more still needs to be done, and in particular, we have to make sure that our focus is not only on inputs but on impact”
New: US State Dept determines five Israeli security units committed gross violations of human rights prior to outbreak of the war with Hamas, but still deciding whether to restrict military assistance to one of the units under U.S. law. Jennifer Hansler cnn.com/2024/04/29/pol…
.Department of State determined that five Israeli security units committed gross violations of human rights prior to October 7, but is still deciding whether to restrict military assistance to one of the units under US law. The The other four “have effectively remediated these violations”
.Secretary Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia to discuss ceasefire in Gaza, two state solution