Jordan warned that the international community should not allow Benjamin Netanyahu to drag the Middle East into a broader regional war.
The Arab country's Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, said that the risk of the conflict spreading is “increasing day by day” as Israel continues to cause “death and destruction in the region.” Gaza“.
The right-wing nationalist coalition government Prime Minister Netanyahu Al-Safadi was quoted as telling his French counterpart, Catherine Colonna, that Iran seeks to directly implicate the West in a regional war that would “doom the region to more conflict and destruction.”
A Palestinian youth was injured as a result of an Israeli car being targeted by an air strike in Rafah. Photo: AP
A Palestinian child interacts near the site of the Israeli raid in Rafah
Al-Safadi said, “Israel’s aggression against Gaza exceeded all humanitarian, legal, and moral limits,” considering that there is no longer any pretext to prevent the UN Security Council from adopting a mandatory resolution to end the war.
Latest updates on the conflict between Israel and Hamas
The pressure is increasing Israel From the United States and regional powers to ease their attacks against it agitationWhich has been classified as a terrorist organization by Western powers, including the United Kingdom.
The US Secretary of State comes Antony Blinken continues his latest tour in the Middle East Because it aims to prevent expanded conflict.
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The United States warns of the possible expansion of the conflict in Gaza
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The war, which was sparked by Hamas's storming of the Gaza border on October 7, 2023 and the killing of some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, in southern Israel, is now entering its fourth month.
Retaliatory attacks by the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, according to health officials in the Hamas-run enclave.
Israel said on Monday that its forces fought “fierce battles” against Hamas fighters in the central and southern parts of the Strip.
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“This may be my last message.”
In the latest violence, Israeli occupation forces bombed the eastern part of the southern city of Khan Yunis and the central Gaza Strip, amid ground clashes, according to residents.
They added that an air strike in Deir al-Balah killed 18 people overnight and four on Monday, while health officials in the enclave said 247 people were killed overnight.
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“Success” in Gaza may be “the beginning of the end”
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who met Mr. BlinkenHe stressed the importance of stopping hostilities in Gaza and forging a path to peace, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
He stressed the need to restore stability and ensure that the Palestinian people obtain their legitimate rights.
Jordanian King Abdullah said that “indiscriminate aggression” and bombing could not bring peace or security.
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Blinken, who also visited Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey among other countries during his trip, along with Israel, said he found support among Arab leaders for normalizing relations with the Israelis.
The chief American diplomat said: “There is a clear interest in the region in seeking to achieve this, but it will require ending the conflict in Gaza and it will also clearly require that there be a practical path to the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
A senior Hezbollah commander was killed
In another sign that the war is extending beyond the borders of Gaza. Israel killed a senior leader in Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas Security sources told Reuters that an explosion occurred in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah leader Wissam al-Tawil was killed in southern Lebanon. Photo: AP
They added that the man was deputy head of a unit within the group's Radwan force.
They identified him as Wissam Al-Tawil, and said that he was killed with another fighter.
Sky News was unable to independently verify these allegations.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said on Monday that it had killed a central figure in Syria who was responsible for Hamas rocket attacks on Israel.
The IDF claimed to have “eliminated” Hassan Hakasha in Beit Jinn.
It claimed that he was a “central figure” responsible for the rockets fired by Hamas from Syrian territory towards Israel in recent weeks.
