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HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
In a camp for displaced people in Rafah, southern Gaza, some Palestinians called on Blinken to live up to US calls for a two-state solution to the conflict.
“We hope that it is a visit for our benefit, for peace’s benefit and for the benefit of establishing a Palestinian state next to a Jewish state, in line with UN resolutions … and with what America has been calling for,” said Moussa al-Atawneh, a 76-year-old displaced man.
In Amman, Blinken visited a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse storing canned food bound for Gaza.
WFP acting country director for Palestine Laura Turner said ahead of meeting Blinken that he should push to halt the conflict and for Israel to open border crossings into northern Gaza.
“That’s where the population is that we haven’t been able to access for six weeks and we’re most concerned about,” Turner said, adding that aid sent north from southern Gaza was being taken en route by other Palestinians also in dire need of food.
Blinken said the US was working to keep aid routes into the strip open and to multiply them.
“We are intensely focused on the very difficult and indeed deteriorating food situation for men, women and children in Gaza, and it’s something we’re working on 24/7,” Blinken said.
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