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Middle East conflict live updates: Blinken meets with Egypt's Sisi, is set to stop in Israel on regional tour

Blinken met with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi as cease-fire talks in Doha falter. The IDF said its raid of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City was ongoing.

By Frances Vinall, Michael Birnbaum, Bryan Pietsch, Sammy Westfall, Lior Soroka, Miriam Berger, Liz Goodwin, Abigail Hauslohner, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Karen DeYoung, John Hudson, Susannah George, Loveday Morris, Kareem Fahim, Sarah Dadouch | 2024-03-21

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday visited Egypt, where he met with President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi as part of his regional trip for talks to halt the fighting in Gaza. Blinken is set to visit Israel on Friday, as negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage release deal in Doha, Qatar, appear to falter. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a delegation of Israeli officials led by David Barnea, head of Israel's Mossad intelligence service, to travel to Qatar on Friday to work on the cease-fire negotiations, Netanyahu's office said. The group is set to meet with CIA Director William J. Burns, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdel Thani and Egyptian Intelligence Minister Abbas Kamal.


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