Evening Edition: Secretary Blinken Attempts to Solidify Mideast Ceasefire

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🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken used his first trip to the Middle East to visit with various leaders to try and make sure the latest ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians lasts. The Secretary thanked leaders of Egypt and Jordan for their roles in the ceasefire and also promised the United States stands firmly behind Israel and will also lend financial assistance in rebuilding Gaza. FOX's Simon Owen speaks to Trey Yingst, about Secretary Blinken's trip and the fragile peace that now exists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.3	May 26, 2021, I'm Simon Owen.
0:27.0	With the ceasefire agreed in the Middle East, the U.S. joins efforts to make it stick.
0:32.0	This agreement needs to be bolstered in the... The U.S. joins efforts to make it stick.
0:32.8	This agreement needs to be bolstered in the short term for it to even hold through the summer.
0:37.8	And it's unclear whether or not the concessions will be made by both sides to form some sort of deal that will last
0:44.9	more than just a few weeks. This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.
0:50.8	After 11 days of fighting leaving hundreds of people dead, both Israel and Palestinian
0:59.7	Militant group Hamas are claiming victory in their latest bloody conflict. A ceasefire last Friday calmed
1:06.6	the tensions, but for how long. President Biden sent his chief diplomat to the Middle East and Secretary of State Anthony Blincken urged leaders on both sides to
1:16.8	chart a better course. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinckin is on a
1:21.0	multi-day multi-stop trip to the Middle East right now.
1:24.4	For more on this, here's Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yinks in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1:29.7	And he made a pretty major announcement yesterday when visiting Ramallah.
1:34.4	The main city in the West Bank, where all of the Palestinians from the Palestinian Authority
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