Blinken rejects Abbas’s request for cease-fire in Gaza

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has rejected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s request for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, according to a Palestinian official. The official told Xinhua that Blinken reaffirmed during his meeting with Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah “Israel’s right to defend itself and continue its military campaign” in […]