Israeli bombing killed dozens of people in besieged Gaza Thursday, with regional tensions surging over the almost three-month-old war.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was headed back to the Middle East for his fourth trip to the region since the bloodiest ever war on Gaza began on October 7.
Blinken is to hold talks with Palestinian officials in the occupied West Bank as well as Israeli leaders and will "discuss immediate measures to increase substantially humanitarian assistance to Gaza," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.