Blinken met with Abbas late last month in the West Bank at the end of an intense series of diplomatic meetings planned before the latest flare-up of violence. In their phone call, the two ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank Tuesday with little to show for his renewed appeals for Israeli-Palestinian calm amid an ...

We're urging all sides now to take urgent steps to restore calm, to de-escalate," Blinken said after meeting ... is or what they believe," he said. "Calls for vengeance against more innocent ...

“Productive call with Netanyahu to discuss regional developments,” Blinken tweeted after the phone ... and Palestinians to take steps to restore calm and our opposition to escalatory ...

But, he added: “Calls for vengeance against more ... responsibility of everyone to take steps to calm tensions rather than inflame them,” Blinken said. Though couched in diplomatic parlance ...

The Palestinian readout of the Saturday phone call said Abbas briefed Blinken on his office’s involvement ... Palestinians to take steps that restore calm and our strong opposition to unilateral ...