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Palestinians in Gaza pin their hopes on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit, aiming for a truce as Israel threatens a new assault on Rafah. The region awaits a response to the ceasefire offer, adding tension to the already volatile situation. Stay tuned for the latest developments.    #AntonyBlinken #Israel #Hamas #Palestine #Gaza #IsraelHamasWar #IsraelPalestineConflict #GazaStrip #USNews #JoeBiden #GazaCrisis #Oneindia                 ~HT.292~ED.194~PR.274~

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00:00 Palestinians, huddling under bombardment in Gaza, said on Monday they hoped a visit to

00:06 the region by the US Secretary of State would finally deliver a truce in time to head off

00:11 a threatened new Israeli assault on the last refuge at the enclave's edge.

00:17 Antony Blinken was in the air headed to the Middle East for his first trip since Washington

00:22 brokered an offer with Israeli input for the first extended ceasefire of the war.

00:28 The offer, delivered to Hamas last week by Qatari and Egyptian mediators, still awaits

00:34 a reply from militants who say they want more guarantees that it will bring an end to the

00:39 four-month-old war in Gaza's strip.

00:42 The US diplomatic push comes at a time when Washington is also trying to prevent further

00:47 escalation elsewhere in the region after two days of US airstrikes against pro-Iranian

00:53 armed groups across the Middle East.

00:55 Meanwhile, Israel has pressed on with its offensive in some of the war's most intense

01:01 combat and threatened a new ground assault on Rafa, a small city where more than half

01:06 of Gaza's people are now penned, against the enclave's southern border abutting Egypt,

01:11 mainly sleeping rough in makeshift tents.

01:15 The ceasefire proposal, described by sources close to the talks, would see a truce for

01:20 at least 40 days while militants would free remaining hostages from among the 253 they

01:25 captured in the deadly October 7 raid into Israel that precipitated the war.

01:31 It would lead in aid to alleviate Gaza's humanitarian crisis and let Gaza's 2.3 million

01:37 people return to homes abandoned during a war that has laid waste to much more than

01:43 enclave.

01:44 The only previous truce so far lasted one week.

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