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Sunday, November 5, 2023
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Sunday, November 5, 2023
Blinken condemns settler violence, tells Abbas Gazans must not be ‘forcibly displaced’
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 5, 2023 (JONATHAN ERNST / POOL / AFP)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Palestinians in Gaza “must not be forcibly displaced,” a State Department spokesman says.
Blinken met with Abbas in Ramallah as he made a visit to the West Bank as violence surges there in tandem with the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says the pair also discussed “the need to stop extremist violence against Palestinians” in the West Bank, presumably referring to recent acts committed by extremist settlers.
