Hadi Amr arrived in the region to promote a truce between the parties, Radio Kan reported.
Israel’s state radio Kan reported that Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israel and Palestine Hadi Amr, who had arrived in the region to promote the truce between Israel and Hamas.
“On the evening of May 14, the US Embassy in Israel announced that Amr had arrived in Tel Aviv to” reaffirm the need to work towards a sustainable peace, taking into account Israel’s right to self-defense”.
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, speaking to reporters at the State Department, said that Amr is going to the region to hold consultations with Israeli and Palestinian officials”, – TASS reports.
Since May 10, radicals from Gaza have fired at Israel, according to the Israeli military, 2,900 missiles, 1,150 of which were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, and 450 fell in the enclave without flying over the border. In response, the Israeli military hit about 800 military targets of radical organizations in the Palestinian seaside enclave. According to the latest data, at least 10 people, including two children, were killed as a result of mutual missile strikes from the Israeli side, and about 150 from the Palestinian side, including 40 children.