APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 25 May 2021. Palestinian demonstrators take part during a protest against the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, arrived to Ramallah and meets with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
US top diplomat Antony Blinken vowed support to help rebuild the battered Gaza Strip and shore up a truce between Hamas and Israel, but insisted the territory's Islamist militant rulers would not benefit from any aid.
A ceasefire was reached late last week after 11 days of deadly violence between Israel and the Hamas movement, stopping Israel's devastating bombardment on the overcrowded Palestinian coastal enclave which, according to the Gaza health ministry, killed 254 Palestinians, including 66 children, and wounded more than 1,900 people. Meanwhile, rockets from Gaza claimed 12 lives in Israel.
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