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Iran’s number one priority is to have an atomic bomb under its belt. It’s not the best time for it. Therefore, it would prefer to work through proxies,
Netanyahu is not interested in a hostage deal for political reasons because his coalition partners are not interested,
This assassination and the reckless Israeli behavior in continuing to target civilians in Gaza would lead to the region sliding into chaos and undermine chances for peace,
the Qatar Foreign Ministry said Egypt and Qatar have been in the trenches with the United States to try to get this hostage deal between Israel and Hamas moving,
The Israelis have yet to claim credit, but it’s likely the Israelis,
We are preventing terrorist attacks, and part of the prevention is to go after terrorists like Rantisi,
said Gideon Meir, deputy director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry Israel will regret this — revenge is coming,
Ismail Haniyeh told reporters at the hospital at the time The implications of all this are still difficult to assess at this point in time, but it is to be feared that all efforts to reach a hostage deal, which was supposedly on the verge of a breakthrough in recent weeks, are now a distant prospect for the time being,
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, an associate professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told DW It is too early to say what results this will bring but the consequences will be reverberating, for the worst,
The fact that this highly symbolic meeting was chosen to eliminate Ismail Haniyeh shows that they [Israel] wanted to illustrate that Iran cannot protect even its own guests and that Israel's reach is beyond the country itself,
The military arm will gain much more support from many Palestinians,
The killing of Fouad Shukur, who was the number two leader means that Hezbollah is under enormous pressure to retaliate,
All eyes were on Tehran and since the assassination happened on Iranian soil, Iran will be forced to come up with a reaction,
Petillo agreed ... she told DW By killing Haniyeh, Israel has wiped away Hamas' political leadership, which was the more moderate force within the movement,
Petillo added, pointing out Hamas will not be able to go back to business as usual,
It also puts Yahya Sinwar, the more extremist leader of Hamas' military wing, at the helm,
So far, Hezbollah had always made very clear that it would stop the strikes and tit-for-tat with Israel once a cease-fire is reached,
The criminal, terrorist Zionist regime martyred our dear guest in our territory and has caused our grief, but it has also prepared the ground for a severe punishment,
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement on X, underlining how the Islamic Republic is likely seeing the attack as a severe violation of its sovereignty That is the ultimate paradox,
said Saab, a former U.S. Defense Department official and head of the U.S.-Middle East practice of Trends Research and Advisory, a consulting firm based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates The best way to bring the temperature down everywhere is through cease-fire in Gaza,