Blinken Says He's Confident More Prisoners Will Be Delivered
President Joe Biden's organization is "confident" that more prisoners held by Hamas will be delivered, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday.
"We don't have the foggiest idea why Hamas decided to deliver Natalie and Judith (Raanan) first. I utilize the word first thoughtfully because once more, we're confident that more follow," he said. "This is the sort of thing we're taken part in practically nonstop."
He said US authorities have been locked in with accomplices in the locale and in chats with the people who could have impacted Hamas to deliver the prisoners.
Blinken expressed that of the 10 Americans unaccounted for, some are accepted to be prisoners, yet he didn't give an accurate figure.
"What we don't be aware of without a doubt is whether a portion of the unaccounted for are dead and have basically not been uncovered at this point, or whether they're a prisoner. However, we have a really compelling thought that some number of the 10, at any rate, are being held in Gaza by Hamas," he said.
At the point when found out if the US believes that Israel should postpone its ground activity until additional prisoners can be delivered, as indicated by two sources informed on the conversations — Blinken said the US is conversing with Israel consistently but kept up with the choices for Israel to make.
Blinken later said the US stays worried over a possible heightening by Iranian intermediaries and is ready for that probability.
"We are doing whatever it may take to ensure that we can actually guard our kin and answer definitively assuming we really want to. This isn't the very thing that we need, not what we're searching for. We don't need acceleration," he said.
Egyptian line monitors experience minor wounds after Israel says IDF tank inadvertently terminated at lookout
An Israeli tank "inadvertently terminated and hit an Egyptian post" Sunday close to the line between the two nations, the Israel Protection Powers said.
The IDF apologized for the occurrence — which occurred in the space of Kerem Shalom, close to the boundaries of southern Gaza and northeastern Egypt — and is examining the matter.
Some Egyptian line monitors experienced minor wounds, Egypt's military said.
"During the steady disputes in the Gaza Strip Sunday, one of the Egyptian line posts was startlingly hit by fragments of a shell from an Israeli tank, accomplishing minor injuries to some boundary watches," an Egyptian military representative said on Facebook.
Egypt additionally said the Israeli side "right away" communicated its disappointment over the unexpected episode, and that the conditions around the shelling are being researched.
More foundation: Kerem Shalom is one of Israel's two boundary intersections with Gaza.
It has been shut since Israel forced a "complete attack" on the territory after Hamas' October 7 dread assaults. Kerem Shalom was among the areas where Hamas killed regular folks after destroying the Gaza line during the attack.
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