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Blinken says Gaza ceasefire is ‘imperative’ after Hamas chief killing
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes part in a conversation with former Singapore ambassador Chan Heng Chee at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore on July 31, 2024. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that a ceasefire in Gaza was the “imperative,” after the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.
Speaking at a forum in Singapore, Blinken refused to comment directly on the killing of Haniyeh, but he says reaching a ceasefire in Gaza “is the enduring imperative.”
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