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The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahuand the Secretary of State U.S, Anthony Blinkenhad to take refuge in a bunker this Monday because air raid sirens sounded while they gathered in Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu and Blinken were meeting with the Israeli war cabinet when they were interrupted by the alert and took shelter for five minutes, the State Department spokesman said. Matthew Millerfor reporters traveling with the US secretary.
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After the danger passed, they resumed the meeting in a command center at the headquarters of the Israeli Defense Ministry, Miller added.
Journalists, who were waiting inside vans for the meeting to end, ran to take refuge inside the ministry as alarms sounded.
Hours earlier, Netanyahu and Blinken met in Jerusalem. On the way to holy city until Tel Aviv The air raid sirens also went off, but the Secretary of State’s motorcade continued on its way.
Blinken is in Israel to explore the possible opening of a humanitarian corridor intended to allow thousands of people to leave the Gaza strip as the Israeli Army prepares to enter the enclave.
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It is the second visit by the head of American diplomacy to Israel since the beginning, on October 7, of the war between the Israelis and the Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip led by Hamas.
Blinken’s visit to Israel It’s part of your tour Middle East which also led him to United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia It is Egyptin the midst of intense diplomatic contacts to mediate the new war, the most serious that has confronted Israel with the militias of Link.
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