RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel must still do more to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip and that he would use his Middle East trip his seventh to the region since the Israel-Hamas war started in October to press that case with Israeli leaders.

Speaking at events in Saudi Arabias capital, Blinken said the best way to ease the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza would be to conclude an elusive cease-fire agreement , which also would release Israeli hostages held by Hamas since its Oct. 7 attacks launched the war. Hamas has been presented with an extraordinarily generous offer by Israel that he hoped the group would accept, he said.

Hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of Israel, and in this moment, the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and cease-fire is Hamas , he said at a World Economic Forum gathering in Riyadh.

They have to decide, and they have to decide quickly. So, were looking to that, and Im hopeful that they will make the right decision and we can have a fundamental change in the dynamic, Blinken said.