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We are peaceful civilians in our homes.
Hassan Ammar, 82, who had been staying in the high-rise building whose walls were partly blown out by the strike after he fled south Lebanon, said The focus is on Lebanon, which means the war in Gaza isn't ending anytime soon,
Hussam Ali, a 45-year-old Gaza City resident who said his family had been displaced seven times since the conflict between Israel and Hamas began on Oct 7 last year, told Reuters via a chat app Whereas Israel has been saying since Oct. 7 that military force and putting pressure on Hamas and Hezbollah will help to bring the hostages home we have seen that the exact opposite is true,
said Nomi Bar-Yaacov, an expert on Middle East diplomacy at London-based think-tank Chatham House We feel for the people of Lebanon and we don't want them to go through the devastation and starvation we are enduring,
said Ghada, a 50-year-old mother of five living in a tent in the central Gaza city of Deir Al-Balah, where a million people are sheltering The most dangerous thing isn't that the media attention is going somewhere else, it is the fact that no one in the world is now talking about a deal or a ceasefire, and that frees Israel's hand to continue its military offensive and plans in Gaza,
It’s not something that will be easily accessible for Israel from the air,
Make no mistake, the United States is fully, fully, fully supportive of Israel,
President Joe Biden said at the White House, We must act now to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, its central energy facilities, and to fatally cripple this terrorist regime,
Bennett wrote on X after Iran’s missile barrage If the Zionist regime, that has gone insane, is not contained by America and Europe and intends to continue such crimes, or do anything against our sovereignty or territorial integrity, [Tuesday’s] operation will be repeated with much higher magnitude and we will hit all their infrastructure,
The West is blaming Iran for the escalation,
The key drivers of events in the Middle East today are the players that are engaged in these combat operations,
said Brian Katulis, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute The Israelis are determined with this momentum to break with what the Iranians and the axis of resistance called the ring of fire,
Miller said, referring to Tehran's strategy of surrounding Israel with its proxies And yes, it could provide an avenue, a pathway, for the United States to get into this war,
That could mean attacking oil-producing facilities in Saudi Arabia,
said Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. negotiator for the Middle East who is now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace We'll be discussing with the Israelis what they're going to do, but they — every — all seven of us [G7 leaders] agree that they have a right to respond, but they should respond in proportion,
We fight the axis of evil everywhere,
If they rid the region of their presence, no doubt these conflicts, wars and clashes will completely go away,
The Israeli prime minister came here today and said that Israel is surrounded by those who want to destroy it,
Safadi told journalists at the United Nations, speaking for the 57 member countries of the Muslim-Arab committee Where is Israel heading, when the only horizon its leaders offer is war?”
Haaretz newspaper asked in an editorial to mark the holiday Lebanon today is stuck between the Israeli destruction machine and the ambitions of others in the region,
Hachem said, alluding to Iran’s support for Hezbollah