State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that Secretary Blinken told Abbas that Gaza's residents “must not be forcibly displaced" during the current war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization in the coastal enclave.
Blinken and Abbas also discussed “the need to stop extremist violence against Palestinians."
While the two discussed "settler violence," anti-Jewish violence has been on the rise in Judea and Samaria in recent weeks.
Over Shabbat, dozens of gunshots were fired at the settlement of Rehelim in Samaria. The homes were struck by bullets, and twenty-six shell casings were found in the area.
On Thursday, Elhanan Klein, a 30-year-old father of three, was murdered in a terrorist shooting attack in Samaria.
Blinken arrived in Israel on Friday and met with Israeli leaders and officials.
In his remarks following his meetings with Israeli officials on Friday, Blinken said that more needs to be done to protect civilians in Gaza and pushed for “humanitarian pauses” in the fighting to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and the potential release of hostages being held by Hamas.
"Each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses, arrangements on the ground that increase security for civilians and permit more effective and sustained delivery of humanitarian assistance. This was an important area of discussion today with Israeli leaders," Blinken said.
"We recognize this would take time to prepare and coordinate with international partners," he continued, noting that "a number of legitimate questions were raised today, how to use any period of pause to maximize flow of aid, how to connect pause to hostage release, how to ensure Hamas doesn't use pause to own advantage? We believe they can be solved."