Secretary of State Antony Blinken highlighted that “we’re very much engaged in a diplomatic effort to ensure that there is no… spreading of the [Gaza] conflict, including to Lebanon and with Hizbollah. And at least it’s my judgment that no one involved actually wants that… even Iran, Hizbollah’s patron”. “But it’s also unfortunately easy sometimes to fall into an unintentional conflict when there’s back and forth”, he added.