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Blinken Urges Israel, Palestine to Ease Tensions Amid Violence
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1:14Now PlayingUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel and the Palestinians on Monday to ease tensions amid a spike in violence that has put the region on edge.
Speaking on his arrival at Israel's international airport near Tel Aviv after a brief visit to Egypt, Blinken called for restraint.
"Calls for vengeance against more innocent victims are not the answer. And acts of retaliatory violence against civilians are never justified," he said.
Blinken said it is imperative for both sides to work to de-escalate tensions that have soared since last week .
“It is the responsibility of everyone to takes steps to calm tensions, rather to inflame them,” he said, “That is the only way to halt the rising tide of violence that has taken too many lives, too many Israelis, too many Palestinians."
On Monday, shortly before Blinken's arrival, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in the flashpoint city of Hebron, bringing the toll of Palestinians killed in January to 35.
The violence comes after months of Israeli arrest raids in the West Bank, which were launched after a wave of Palestinians attacks against Israelis in the spring of 2022 that killed 19 people.
But it has spiked this month during the first weeks of Benjamin Netanyahu's new far-right government, which has promised to take a tough stance against the Palestinians and ramp up settlement construction.
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