The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, on his third trip to Israel in a month to meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, has a complex agenda.

The aim of the visit is, according to Washington, the lobbying for humanitarian pauses in the war in the Gaza Stripwhile the Israeli forces have surrounded Gaza City which is under constant bombardment.

According to the White House, these pauses must be temporally and locally limited as Washington is rejecting calls from Arab and other countries for a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas, now in its 28th day.

However, the agenda of this visit of the head of American diplomacy appears more complexbecause the escalation of the war and the loss of civilians along with the humanitarian disaster that accompanies it increases the anger of public opinion and affects domestic and international interests of the United States.

Anthony Blinken is expected to apply pressure for the exit of more foreigners from the Gaza Strip, to increase humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave and will emphasize the importance of protecting civilians. It will also pressure Israel to control Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

A new item on the agenda of the talks that Anthony Blinken will have in Israel will be the need for Israel to define what the post-war situation in the Gaza Strip will be; who will take over the governance, how there will be security guarantees and what will be the path to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

In a speech to Congress on Tuesday, Anthony Blinken talked about the possibility of strengthening the role of the Palestinian Authority, and the possibility that Arab countries and international organizations will be called upon to play a role in the post-war reality of Gaza.

According to State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, Blinken will talk about the US’s “commitment to cooperate with their partners on the terms of a lasting and sustainable peace in the Middle East, which will include the establishment of a Palestinian state that will meet the aspirations of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.”

Anthony Blinken will meet tomorrow Saturday in Amman with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who says in a statement that Israel must end the war in Gaza, where he is committing war crimes shelling civilians and imposing a siege.