Blinken meets Palestinian leader Abbas in Ramallah

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday.

The US has proposed the Palestinian Authority in Gaza after the end of the war. The visit came a day after talks on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet over Israel's war with Hamas, regional tensions and the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.