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Blinken also rejected the idea that what is happening in Gaza constitutes genocide and placed the blame for the crisis there squarely on Hamas.

Blinken's comments in the interview Saturday ... Among certain segments of the Israeli public, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the reason the hostages are still languishing in Hamas’s ...

After traveling more than a million miles on the job, the secretary of state discusses the Biden administration's foreign policy report card, from a reinvigorated NATO alliance and Russian aggression in Ukraine,

Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a Gaza ceasefire and the release of dozens of hostages. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

The Gaza Strip ceasefire should begin on Sunday as planned, despite the need for negotiators to tie up a "loose end" at the last minute, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday.

Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip whilst Israel insists details are still being finalised

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of backing out of a cease-fire deal to release hostages and end the war in Gaza, which has raged for more than a year.

Rifts with Hamas and a far-right minister’s threat to resign complicated progress toward the Israeli cabinet’s vote on the deal, which includes the release of hostages.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday proposed international ... the misgivings of Israel -- where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a far-right government and expects even ...

A week before the end of his term as US secretary of state, Antony Blinken laid out the ... a notion vehemently opposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. In a lengthy address ...