US secretary of state Antony Blinken has arrived in Egypt to begin a three-day visit to the Middle East where he will look to ease Israeli-Palestinian tensions after an eruption of violence.
The US secretary of state will travel to Jerusalem on Monday to meet with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then on to Ramallah on Tuesday to hold talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
Blinken had long planned the visit to see Israel’s new…