Pressure has mounted on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a deal to end the fighting, days after Israel's military recovered six killed captives from a Gaza tunnel.

Baerbock will set off Wednesday evening for Saudi Arabia where she will hold talks with Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, foreign ministry spokeswoman Kathrin Deschauer said.

The talks will focus on "the dramatic situation in the region" and "the ongoing attacks by the radical Islamist Houthi militia from Yemen on international shipping", Deschauer said.

Baerbock will then head to Jordan and meet her counterpart Ayman Safadi to discuss "in particular the issue of coordinating humanitarian aid for the people in Gaza".

She will then travel to Israel to meet Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

"These talks will focus on plans for an immediate and urgently needed humanitarian ceasefire, which should lead to the release of the captives and urgently needed humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza," Deschauer said.

Baerbock will then head to the occupied West Bank, the site of recent heavy clashes, where she will meet Palestinian Authority prime minister Mohammed Mustafa to discuss "how an imminent escalation of violence in the West Bank can be prevented".

The trip will be Baerbock's ninth to Israel and her 11th to the Middle East since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7.

Israel's brutal military campaign on the Gaza Strip since Oct.7, has killed at least 40,861 people, most of them women and children, with over 94,398 others wounded, according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

* This story was edited by Ahram Online.