Blinken: After Oct. 7, I threatened to nix Biden visit if Israel didn’t send aid into Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has revealed that in the first days after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault on Israel, he had to threaten Israel that President Joe Biden would not visit the country as planned unless the government allowed aid into Gaza.
Speaking to The New York Times in a wide-ranging interview at the end of his tenure, Blinken spoke about the initial siege imposed on Gaza in the wake of the massacre that killed some 1,200 people and saw another 251 taken hostage.