US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel must still do more to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza [Video]

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Israel must still do more to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip.

On Monday, he said he would use his current Middle East trip — his seventh to the region since the Israel-Hamas war started in October — to press that case with Israeli leaders.

Speaking at events in Riyadh, Blinken said the best way to ease the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza would be to conclude an elusive ceasefire agreement that would release hostages held by Hamas.

“Hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of Israel and in this moment the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and ceasefire is Hamas,” he said at a World Economic Forum gathering in the Saudi …