Israel and Hezbollah say they will keep up attacks in an escalating conflict that has devastated Gaza, is causing misery in Lebanon and could draw Iran deeper into the fighting.

Blinken's latest trip -- his 11th to the region since Palestinian Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on October 7 triggering the Gaza war -- comes as the Israeli military has intensified its campaign in the Palestinian enclave as well as in Lebanon against Iran-aligned Hezbollah militia.

U.S. Secretary of State Blinken visits Israel amid Gaza ceasefire talks, facing challenges ahead of U.S. election.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East to launch another push for an elusive ceasefire, seeking to revive negotiations to end the Gaza war and defuse the spillover conflict in Lebanon.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is travelling to the Middle East to begin another push for a ceasefire, seeking to revive negotiations to end the Gaza war and defuse the spillover conflict in Lebanon.

US pushing Israel to improve humanitarian access to Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left for the Middle East Monday on a new push for an elusive Gaza ceasefire two weeks before US elections, seeing a new opportunity from Israel's killing of Hamas's leader.

An Israeli official told Bloomberg that Israel is open to a deal that would calm the front in southern Lebanon, release hostages in Gaza and allow more aid in.

Israel’s military campaign against the Iranian-backed armed group has set off a humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, displacing around a fifth of the population.

Israeli strikes target Hezbollah-linked financial firm

Secretary Blinken "will underscore that additional food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid must be delivered to civilians in Gaza."

Blinken is set to fly first to Israel and then tour other countries in the Middle East

BEIRUT: US envoy Amos Hochstein will hold talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut on Monday (Oct 21) on conditions for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, while Israel struck branches across Lebanon of what it describes as Hezbollah's shadow bank. Diplomacy has failed to cool down Israel's conflicts

A report in UAE-based Erem News quoted an Iranian source as saying that Naim Qassem left Beirut on October 5 in an aircraft used by Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi for a state visit to Lebanon and Syria.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed again to the Middle East, making his 11th trip to the region since the Gaza war erupted last year and as Israel steps up attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon.