WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said part of the motivation for Hamas' latest attack on Israel may have been disrupting a potential normalising of Israel-Saudi Arabia ties and added Washington will announce new assistance for Israel on Sunday (Oct 8).
launched at dawn on Saturday represented the biggest and deadliest incursion into Israel since Egypt and Syria launched a sudden assault in an effort to reclaim lost territory in the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh had highlighted threats to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, the continuation of an Israeli the blockade on Gaza and Israeli normalisation with countries in the region. The United States said on Sunday that Saudi-Israel normalisation efforts should continue despite the latest attack.
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