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I’ll certainly not speculate about whether and to what degree Iran does anything. What I can tell you is we have and will maintain a level of readiness to preserve our national security interest in the region,
We’re obviously concerned about escalation, ... we don’t believe that it is inevitable.”
We don’t want to see an escalation, and everything we’ve been doing since the 7th of October,” when the Gaza war began with Hamas’s invasion of Israel, “we’ve been trying to manage those risks,
Citizens of Israel, challenging days lie ahead. Since the strike in Beirut there are threats sounding from all directions. We are prepared for any scenario and we will stand united and determined against any threat. Israel will exact a heavy price for any aggression against us from any arena,
Netanyahu said in a televised statement The coincidence of this regional escalation with the lack of progress in the ceasefire negotiations in Gaza increases the complexity of the situation and indicates the absence of Israeli political will to calm it down,
a Foreign Ministry statement said Maybe there wouldn’t be a dramatic change in the dynamics on the ground in Gaza when it comes to fighting, but certainly the prospects of a ceasefire urgently needed … are more distant than they have ever been,
By assassinating Haniyeh, they are destroying everything,
This man [Haniyeh] could have signed the prisoner exchange deal with the Israelis,
Saleh al-Shannar, who was displaced from his home in northern Gaza, told The Associated Press We’ve now seen again that Israel can target anywhere in Iran. But this time there is a question of the safety of the Iranian senior officials,
Nomi Bar-Yaacov, associate fellow with the international security program at Chatham House, said I just don’t see how a cease-fire is feasible right now with the assassination of the person you would have been negotiating with,
said Vali Nasr, a former U.S. diplomat now at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Israel sent a clear message: we will harm with great force whoever harms us.”
In fact, we have a team in the region right now as we speak, to try to continue to work with our counterparts to move this forward because it's that important,
And look, I think when it comes to the Middle East, when it comes to foreign policy more broadly, this is a president that has a record to stand on. When it relates to making sure we're putting the national security of the American people first, this is something that he's done, making sure that we, you know, that we reengage with our allies and also partners,
Jean-Pierre said Wednesday I think it's too soon to know what any of these reported events could mean for the ceasefire deal,
I've seen the statement that Hamas put out. I can't confirm or verify. We have no independent confirmation,
Kirby said during the White House press briefing Wednesday afternoon We have settled our scores with Mohsen and we will settle our scores with anyone who harms us,
he said using Shukr's nom de guerre We've eliminated (Hezbollah chief Hassan) Nasrallah's right-hand man, who was directly responsible for the massacre of children,
Netanyahu said, in reference to the killing of 12 children over the weekend in a strike Israel has blamed on the Lebanese armed group If we had listened to these voices, we would not have eliminated Hamas leaders and thousands of terrorists, we would not have destroyed terrorist infrastructures ... we would not have created the conditions that bring us closer to an agreement that will allow both the liberation of all our hostages and the achievement of all the war's objectives,
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,