Blinken said Hamas"s reply had been "shared" with Israel and he would discuss it there on Wednesday TEL AVIV: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday as he attempted to seal a truce in the four-month-old Gaza war. Blinken, who had flown from Saudi Arabia to Egypt and then Qatar on Tuesday in what is his fifth crisis tour of the Middle East, landed in Israel late in the evening, according to an AFP journalist.