{"id":252514,"date":"2025-10-26T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T10:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252514\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T10:56:13","slug":"rubio-says-mediators-of-gaza-ceasefire-idd-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252514\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio says mediators of Gaza ceasefire ID’d threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that Israel, the U.S. and the other mediators of the Gaza ceasefire deal<\/a> are sharing information to disrupt any threats and that allowed them to identify a possible impending attack<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

The State Department said a week ago that it had \u201ccredible reports\u201d Hamas could violate the ceasefire with an attack on Palestinian civilians in Gaza. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe put out a message through State Department, sent it to our mediators as well, about an impending attack, and it didn\u2019t happen,\u201d he told reporters en route from Israel to Qatar, where he met up with President Donald Trump for a multistop tour in Asia<\/a>. \u201cSo that\u2019s the goal here, is ultimately to identify a threat before it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio said multiple countries are interested in joining an international stabilization force<\/a> that aims to deploy to Gaza but that they need more details about the mission and rules of engagement. <\/p>\n

The U.S. could call for a U.N. resolution supporting the force so more nations can take part, he said, adding that the U.S. has been talking with Qatar, Egypt and Turkey and noting interest from Indonesia and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the countries who want to be a part of it can\u2019t do it without that,\u201d he said of an international mandate.<\/p>\n

He also noted that next week the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, is expected to be the latest in a parade of U.S. officials to travel to Israel. <\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance<\/a> joined special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner earlier in the week in Israel in an effort to shore up the fragile ceasefire deal<\/a>. Rubio arrived just as Vance was departing, meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and touring a U.S.-led coordination center<\/a> monitoring the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Rubio touched on several other key foreign policy priorities in his remarks to reporters. Here\u2019s a look:<\/p>\n

Sanctions on Colombia\u2019s president<\/p>\n

A day after the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro<\/a>, his family and a member of his government over accusations of involvement in the global drug trade, Rubio said it was not about targeting the country itself, which is one of the closest American allies in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a U.S. vs. Colombia thing,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is us reacting to the actions of what\u2019s turned into a hostile foreign leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the U.S. has excellent relations with Colombia\u2019s people and institutions and that the Trump administration didn\u2019t want to hurt the country\u2019s economy, so it held off on tariffs. Trump last weekend had threatened to unleash them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked if he would rule out tariffs, Rubio said Trump makes those decisions but \u201cobviously the president was aware of the options available to him and chose these instead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sanctions ramped up tensions with Colombia\u2019s first leftist leader, who has hit back at the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe the current U.S. government violated its rule of law by sanctioning me as if I were a mobster, when I dedicated my life to fighting the mafia,\u201d Petro wrote on X. \u201cTheir desperation will lead them to set traps for me. I\u2019m ready to fight. For myself and for my people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stance toward Venezuela<\/p>\n

Reporters asked Rubio whether other leaders in the region may help urge Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> to step down, with speculation swirling about whether recent U.S. military actions in Latin America are aimed at ousting Maduro. <\/p>\n

Rubio responded that when the U.S. deploys assets in its own hemisphere, \u201ceveryone sort of freaks out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has launched a series of strikes<\/a> against alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific and is deploying an aircraft carrier to South America<\/a>, a major escalation of an already robust military buildup<\/a> in the region. <\/p>\n

Rubio insisted that the U.S. is taking part in a counterdrug operation. And he again accused Maduro\u2019s government of allowing and participating in the shipment of narcotics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very serious problem for the hemisphere, and a very destabilizing one,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cAnd that has to be addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says other countries in the region, including Ecuador, Mexico, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, cooperate in combating drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

Maduro said the U.S. government<\/a> is fabricating a war against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are fabricating an extravagant narrative, a vulgar, criminal and totally fake one,\u201d Maduro said Friday night in a national broadcast. \u201cVenezuela is a country that does not produce cocaine leaves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taiwan and China<\/p>\n

Rubio said it was important for the U.S. to remain engaged with China but that Taiwan would not become a bargaining chip for the world\u2019s largest economies to reach a larger trade agreement.<\/p>\n

Trump says he expects to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a> in South Korea in the coming days during his Asia trip. Beijing claims sovereignty over the self-governed island and vows to seize it by force if necessary. The United States is obligated by its own laws to give military support to Taiwan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf what people are worried about is we\u2019re going to get some trade deal or we\u2019re going to get favorable treatment on trade in exchange for walking away from Taiwan \u2014 no one is contemplating that,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that Israel, the U.S. and the other mediators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7589,23,1927,5620,64636,12,5619,793,108734,7590,803,48658,6009,137351,643,3,18231,111,15275,17569,1924,21,792,19,22,20,25,24,964,800,965,6132],"class_list":["post-252514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","tag-america","tag-ap-top-news","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-dan-caine","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza-strip","tag-general-news","tag-gustavo-petro","tag-international-agreements","tag-israel","tag-jared-kushner","tag-jd-vance","tag-joint-chiefs-of-staff","tag-marco-rubio","tag-news","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-politics","tag-qatar","tag-steve-witkoff","tag-u-s-department-of-state","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}