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With regard to what Iran wanted about, you know, the respecting its territorial integrity and its sovereignty, there was, you know, a strong support to this sentiment.”
What Bagheri did get in Jeddah was the kind of diplomatic support intended help get them off the ledge, with Mansour saying The first step toward stopping the escalation is ending its root cause, which is the continued Israeli aggression on Gaza.”
The region does not need escalation, ... What the region needs is a ceasefire. What the region needs to address legitimate rights. I have a feeling that Prime Minister Netanyahu wants to drag President Biden into a war with Iran”
Today’s decision will have consequences for our relationship with the Netanyahu government,
said Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide But we must stay alert, even if tensions have relatively subsided over the past two days,
said the source, requesting anonymity We must see a de-escalation
Officials and leaders in the Middle East and beyond have called for calm, with Britain’s minister for international development, Anneliese Dodds, telling AFP on a visit to Jordan If the United States and the western countries are truly seeking to prevent war in the region, they must force this regime [Israel] to stop the genocide and attacks on Gaza and accept a ceasefire,
The waiting is part of our response … the battle is also psychological,
Hezbollah’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, claimed in a speech earlier this week Syria stresses that the people of the Golan are Syrian Arab citizens who were, are, and will remain an integral part of the Syrian people, ... and they remain devoted to their belonging to their homeland Syria and their national identity, and they reject the Israeli occupation and look forward to ending it and putting an end to its criminal practices against them."
The Syrian Arab Republic condemns the heinous crime that took place in the Syrian town of Majdal Shams, which led to the martyrdom of twelve Syrian children and the injury of others, ... and affirms the responsibility of the Israeli occupation for that sinful attack which the Israeli occupation authorities used to falsely accuse other parties and to find pretexts to continue their attacks on countries of the region."
We have pursued two priorities simultaneously, ... first, establishing a durable ceasefire in Gaza and the withdrawal of the occupiers from this territory; second, punishing the aggressor for the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh, preventing the recurrence of the Israeli regime's terrorist aggressions, and making the Zionists regret embarking on such a trajectory."
the Iranian Mission said, We give strength to the Druze community, our brave, full partner, with the rest of the citizens of Israel, in the war for our home, our collective home,
Israel Defense Forces Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said during his visit to Majdal Shams in wake of the attack We strongly support the residents of Majdal Shams, ... and we embrace the bereaved families and wish all the injured a speedy and full recovery."
I thought that after they killed Haniyeh, they had already achieved their goal and that we were closer to the end of the war,
said Nisreen Sabouh, a 37-year-old displaced mother of four There is a good proposal before both sides, and they need to both accept that proposal so we can get this in place,
And as the chief decision maker, he needs to decide now to take this deal, to get a cease-fire in place, to get some of those hostages home and to get us all an opportunity to get more humanitarian assistance in,
I don’t care who Hamas chooses to lead the movement inside or outside,
said Safaa Oda, a 39-year-old cartoonist from the southern city of Rafah who was displaced to a tent in Khan Younis Deliberate starvation of civilians is a war crime: Minister Smotrich advocating for it is beyond ignominious,
the E.U.’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said in a post on social media on Wednesday in reaction to his comments I see peak readiness, both in offense and in defense.”
On Wednesday, Herzi Halevi, the military’s chief of staff, expressed readiness, telling soldiers after an assessment of the Tel-Nof Air Force Base, near Rehovoth We will know how to carry out a very rapid offensive anywhere in Lebanon, anywhere in Gaza, anywhere in the Middle East, above ground and below ground,