The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, arrived this Saturday morning in Tel Aviv on a visit in which he will try to pressure the Government of Israel to guarantee the protection of Palestinian civilians in the war against the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip. . Blinken, who is making his second trip to the Middle East since the escalation of the conflict following the Hamas attacks on civilians in Israel, which left 1,400 dead and 220 people kidnapped, on October 7, will meet with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and will participate in a meeting of his security cabinet, the AFP news agency reported. During this visit this Friday to Israel that will continue over the weekend in Jordan, Blinken has several objectives: to pressure his Israeli ally to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and to guarantee a continuous flow of humanitarian aid that It still arrives in too small quantities to the Gaza Strip, bombed relentlessly by the Israeli Army. "We are going to talk about concrete measures that can and should be taken to minimize the harm to the men, women and children of Gaza," Blinken declared before departing from Washington. "We are going to talk about concrete measures that can and should be taken to minimize the harm to the men, women and children of Gaza" Anthony Blinken Although he highlighted that the United States believes that Israel has "the right and obligation to defend itself" after the deadly attack launched against it by Hamas at the beginning of the month and which left some 1,400 dead and 220 hostages of different nationalities, Blinken believes that they should further civilian casualties in Gaza can be avoided. The latest official report from Hamas authorities put at least 9,061 Palestinians dead and around 32,000 injured in three and a half weeks of Israeli bombing, including 3,760 minors and 2,326 women.