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Blinken scraps Jordan stop on Gaza truce tour, heading to Saudi Arabia instead
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for talks on normalization with Israel as he pushes for a ceasefire in Gaza, a US official tells reporters.
Blinken, who is on a regional tour expected to last throughout the week, will travel to Saudi capital Riyadh instead of previous plans to head to Jordan due to scheduling issues, the official says on condition of anonymity.
The normalization deal is widely seen as dead in the water, as Riyadh is now conditioning it on the establishment of a Palestinian state — a nonstarter for Israel.
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