{"id":439838,"date":"2025-12-11T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439838\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:03:13","slug":"us-rubio-meets-israeli-counterpart-on-gaza-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439838\/","title":{"rendered":"US\u2019 Rubio meets Israeli counterpart on Gaza, Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar on Wednesday to discuss President Donald Trump\u2019s 20-point peace plan for Gaza and regional issues, the State Department said. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"402\" data-end=\"696\">The discussions covered Syria, Lebanon, and broader Middle East stability, with both sides reaffirming \u201cclose collaboration\u201d to advance peace. Sa\u2019ar highlighted shared \u201copportunities and challenges\u201d across the Middle East, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/lithuania-declares-nationwide-emergency-over-smuggling-balloons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin<\/a> America, and Africa, noting Israel\u2019s renewed ties with Bolivia, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"698\" data-end=\"982\">The meeting comes ahead of Trump hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on December 29 to discuss the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan, amid concerns over Israel\u2019s repeated ceasefire violations and recent airstrikes in Syria that killed 13 people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar on Wednesday to discuss President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":439839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70,28463,99,50,203057,23312,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-439838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-gideon-saar","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-rubio","13":"tag-syria","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}