welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we start with the us secretary of state, antony blinken, who is headed to the middle east to visit israel, the west bank, and seven countries over the next week. the us state department says during mr blinken s trip, he will seek immediate increase in aid to gaza as the strip continues to deal with a humaniatarian crisis. the trip comes as the uk foreign secretary, david cameron, warns israel must allow more aid into gaza in order to avoid starvation and large outbreaks of disease. and there are reports of dozens more deaths from air strikes in southern gaza, as israel continues its military operation there. and in lebanon, people gathered for the funeral of deputy hamas leader saleh al arouri. he was killed earlier this week in an explosion. hezbollah a powerful iranian backed group in lebanon has blamed that attack on what it says was flagrant israeli aggression . israel has not commented, but
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but it s there as a signal to the western powers that it s trying to secure shipping in the red sea and that signal is, if you attack the houthis attacking vessels in the red sea, ourfrigate may respond, and indeed, we may send more naval vessels . so it s a very tense situation, and it s so unpredictable because we don t know what iran s plan is. but it s a very strong message from iran that this frigate is now there in the red sea. well, antony blinken is set to visit the middle east again what can he realistically do to stop the escalation of the gaza israel conflict from spreading? this is the dilemma for the united states. i think we all remember after the attacks happened, and after israel began retaliating by striking gaza, the americans said, we ll hug israel close meaning we will keep them close so that when we ask them to, for example, reduce violence, they will then listen to us and follow our advice. and unfortunately, that