United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived on Friday in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the final stop in his sixth urgent trip to the region since the start of the war. Blinken says he will share alternatives to Israel’s planned ground assault into the southern Gaza town of Rafah when he meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his War Cabinet.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council will vote Friday on a US-sponsored resolution declaring “the imperative of an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war.