Arab ministers held talks today with a Palestinian official in Cairo to discuss efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, and are due to meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is seeking to secure a ceasefire of at least six weeks.
The ministers met with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee general secretary Hussein al-Sheikh to discuss “efforts to stop the Israeli war against Gaza, the inevitability of achieving a ceasefire, and full access to aid,” the Egyptian foreign ministry’s spokesperson says.
Along with his post in the PLO, Sheikh is the Palestinian Authority’s minister for civilian affairs.
Blinken is also due to meet with Sheikh — a confidant of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and an intermediary in contacts with Israel — along with the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates’ state minister for international cooperation, according to an Egyptian foreign ministry note.
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