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## Video: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Hamas Response to Cease-Fire Proposal

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_Published 2024-02-06. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday confirmed that the Hamas group had responded to the latest proposal for a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinian militants._


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### U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Signals No Immediate US Press for Mideast Ceasefire

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## Transcript

so together with cutter in Egypt we put forward as you know, that's a serious proposal that the same did not simply repeating the previous agreement but expanding as the Prime Minister just said Hamas responded tonight. We're reviewing that response now and I'll be discussing it with the government of Israel tomorrow. It's a lot of work to be done. But we continue to believe that an agreement is possible and indeed essential and we will continue to work relentlessly to achieve it. We had meeting already on the strip in in Riyadh and Cairo now today in Doha focused on ensuring as well that we can use any pause to continue to build out plans for the day after and Gaza security and governance all bring a real challenges with him, but that's exactly why we are and need to be focused on the now.

We're also determined to use any pasta continue to pay the Diplomatic path forward to a just and Lasting peace and security for the region. That is the best way the best way to ensure that October 7th, and the tragic loss of life by Israelis and Palestinians is not repeated when I was last in the region few weeks ago. I said then that there's a very powerful path that we can see before us to actually get to Lasting peace and security and is coming ever more sharply into Focus. Israel that is integrated into the region with security guarantees from its neighbors and partners. alongside a practical time-bound irreversible path to a Palestinian State living side-by-side in peace real with a necessary security arrangements for both peoples.

On this visit one of our key objectives has been to continue to hammer out the substance and sequence of all the steps that would be necessary to enable us to move down now. That's one path. It's clear and you can see that it gets us to a destination that would benefit virtually everyone in the region end. As I said bring lasting peace and security to Israelis and Palestinians alike. But there are those who want to move the region in a different direction and take a different path and who are actively working to sabotage every effort to move toward lasting peace and security just look at what we've seen in the last couple of months and indeed in the last couple of weeks attacks in Syria and Iraq.

attacks on Israel from Lebanon attacks on International Shipping in the Red Sea attacks in Jordan the chilled three US service members and of course. the attack on Israel on October 7th each and every one carried out by groups trained armed fun to inform by Ron Ron and its proxies claim that they're carrying out these attacks somehow on behalf of the Palestinian people. That is absolutely wrong. And it's a cover for their 2 and 10. They are all fundamentally about Orion's quest for power. We've been very clear that we do not want to see the conflict expanded. We don't want to see escalation. But we've also been clear that if our Personnel if our people are threatened if they're attacked we will respond.

We will defend them. We are responding to violence not initiating it. We're seeking to prevent escalation. Not fuel it. And as we do this, we will continue to use every tool available to us. Extended pause that gets hostages out that gets more assistance in that brings calm. Two gases civilians and the keeps the pharmacy moving forward toward an integrated and more secure region.

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