"Blinken Urges Peaceful Resolution for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Amid Escalating Border Clashes"

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken presses Israel on Gaza's postwar future, urging protection of civilians and aid access, while also rejecting settlement proposals for Palestinians outside the territory; Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon escalate tensions with Hezbollah; U.N. Security Council to vote on condemning Houthi attacks in Red Sea; Yemen's Houthi rebels launch drone and missile attacks on shipping in the Red Sea; U.S. defends vetoing Russian amendment to U.N. cease-fire plan for Gaza.