US wants Israel-Hamas cease-fire to continue, Blinken says

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a press conference following the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting on Ukraine at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday, Nov. 29. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that America wants the Israel-Hamas cease-fire to continue.

“With regard to the pause, look, we'd like to see the pause extended because what it is enabled first and foremost is hostages being released. It's also enabled us to surge humanitarian assistance into the people of Gaza,” Blinken told reporters. “So it's continuation, by definition means that more hostages would be coming home, more assistance would be getting in. So clearly, that's something we want, I believe it's also something that that Israel wants.”

When asked about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apprehension towards a two state solution, Blinken said that was a work in progress as well.

“These are conversations that we'll pursue in the days ahead in the weeks ahead, in the months ahead,” he said.