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Washington (AFP) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that a US envoy would travel to the Middle East to seek to calm tensions as he implored Israel to avoid civilian deaths. Hady Amr, the deputy assistant secretary of state in charge of Israeli and Palestinian affairs, was leaving Wednesday and will meet both Israeli and Palestinian leaders, US officials said. “He will urge on my behalf and on behalf of President Biden a de-escalation of violence,” Blinken told reporters. The top diplomat, in a call with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, again pushed for both sides to …