more suffering. so from day one, among other priorities, we have been intensely focused on working to prevent the conflict from spreading. >> secretary of state antony blinken is again back in the middle east in an effort to sustain u.s. pressure to prevent the conflict from widening. the high stakes visit comes three months after the october 7th hamas attacks that sparked israel's war in gaza and in turn the mounting death toll and humanitarian crisis. jeremy diamond is in tel aviv with the latest. >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken is set to arrive in israel this week following a mu multi-country tour. today he was in qatar. he's trying to prevent the israel-hamas war from spreading. we've watched as that has been heightened following an apparent israeli airstrike in the suburbs of beirut taking out a senior