Blinken says a number of countries could play ‘interim role’ in post-war Gaza

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Tuesday that a number of countries could provide security to Gaza “on an interim basis” at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

Blinken was responding to a question about whether Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates would be able or willing to provide security to the Gaza Strip.

Middle East Eye previously reported that the US had been reaching out to Gulf states to send peacekeeping forces to Gaza.

The Arab League called for UN peacekeepers in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem at a summit in Bahrain. The US says it is against a UN role.

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