Blinken alarms for a bigger conflict: Urgently make the right choices these days

He urged the parties to stop the company of escalating actions, a day after Hamas political leader Ismail Haneyeh was killed.

For now, the path the region is going through is towards more conflict, more violence, more suffering, more uncertainty. And it's essential that we break the cycle. And that starts with a truce”, Blinken said.

The “to get there requires that all sides stop taking escalation actions”, he said.

Blinken said he cannot predict the effect of “any event in what will come next”, but “a ceasefire to end the Gaza conflict to create peace in the north, between Israel and Lebanon” is in the interest of all.

All sides must find the “reason to reach an agreement, not to look for reasons to delay or say no to the” agreement, he said.

Blinken said he spoke with his colleagues throughout the region during the last 24 hours and that they were all focused on reaching a ceasefire.

He also voiced confidence that an agreement can still be reached because he said it is <x0imperative that we do this”.

It is urgent that all parties make the right choices in the days ahead of”, he added.

Hayeh was the second figure of an Iranian-backed group killed within days, as Israel stole a high commander of Hezbollah in southern Beirut in Lebanon.