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The raging fires in the Middle East are fast becoming an inferno,
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the council First of all, we don’t allow Israel, we advise Israel. And there’s nothing going to happen today. We’ll talk about that later.”
Hezbollah's activities force the IDF to act against it forcefully,
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 I have lost my home and relatives in this war, but all of that is a sacrifice for Lebanon, for Hezbollah."
Youssef Amir, displaced from southern Lebanon, said I see where the war's going and I don't feel comfortable with it,
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,
We are at the height of a difficult war against Iran's Axis of Evil, which wants to destroy us. This will not happen because we will stand together and with God's help, we will win together.”
In a condolence video, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said You are located near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah, which the army will act against in the near future,
Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on social media site X, naming the Haret Hreik, Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath Gharb areas as sites that would be raided 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,