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We are willing to improve our relations with France on the basis of mutual trust,
Pezeshkian added in his conversation with Macron Any possible Israeli attack on Lebanon will have serious consequences for Israel,
Pezeshkian was quoted by Iranian state media as saying We both agreed that widening of conflict in the region is in nobody’s interest,
Lammy said in a post on the social media site X These children are our children, they are the children of all of us,
he said as officials laid a wreath on the field The state of Israel will not and cannot overlook this. Our response will come, and it will be severe,
We will let actions speak for themselves.”
He did not elaborate, saying only This attack was conducted by Lebanese Hezbollah. It was their rocket, and launched from an area they control. It should be universally condemned."
U.S. National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said on Sunday The Secretary reaffirmed the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security against threats from Iranian-backed terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah. He emphasized the importance of preventing escalation of the conflict and discussed efforts to reach a diplomatic solution to allow citizens on both sides of the border between Israel and Lebanon to return home,
If I didn’t know better by your statement, it appears the attack kind of spontaneously happened by an evil missile acting on its own."
David Wurmser, a former senior adviser for nonproliferation and Middle East strategy for former Vice President Dick Cheney, wrote in response to Lew’s message on X It is very difficult. The entire town is like one big family,
Arin Awidat, a resident of Majdal Shams, told Channel 12 TV news I was afraid of going to work and leaving my children at home alone, but we never imagined that such a disaster would fall upon us,
We also don’t want to see the conflict escalate. We don’t want to see it spread.”
Speaking in Tokyo, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was clear Israel has every right to defend itself against Hezbollah like they do against Hamas. It’s sort of – it shows you how bad Iran and its surrogates are,
I went to this speech, because the relationship between Israel and America is ironclad and I wanted to show that,
Iran, through its surrogates, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, is really the real evil in this area,
said Democrat Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer on CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan We don’t want escalation for sure,
he said, describing Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthi rebels as “proxies of Iran”. For more than nine months, Hezbollah is attacking our citizens in the north firing thousands of rockets and missiles and UAVs at northern Israel, targeting homes, families and communities,
The Hezbollah terror organization fired a rocket at children playing soccer in a soccer field in Majdal Al-Shams in northern Israel, Hezbollah then lied to the whole world and claimed they did not carry out this attack. This is a lie. We can confirm that Hezbollah murdered ten children in this brutal attack,
We are not, let’s say, capable to do it in both places and at the same time.”
Igniting a war in Israel’s north while it’s engaged in Gaza would overburden the military, Barak Ben-Zur, a researcher at the International Institute of Counter-Terrorism, told journalists I'm sure anyone that has seen the latest images... it's heartbreaking to see what's going on and it's such a painful human reminder of why we need to get to a situation where the fighting can stop