Iran warns of ‘preemptive’ action against Israel amid Gaza war …
Tehran, Iran has warned (Who, ... the families of those murdered, raped, shot and tortured to death and worse by Hamas terrorists) that a ground offensive on the besieged Gaza Strip would be met with a response from other fronts. (would that be terrorists or Iran supported terrorists?)
Iran has warned of a possible “preemptive” action against Israel “in the coming hours”, as Israel prepares for a ground offensive on the Gaza Strip. The only issue Hamas leadership are NOT in Gaza Strip, rather they are in the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Doha, Qatar wherein Bill Gates investment company owns the controlling interest!
TERRORIST OPERATING KNOWINGLY WITHIN THE BORDERS OF A SOVEREIGN STATE, TERRITORY, OR COUNTRY IS … SANCTIONED IMPLICITLY BY THAT STATE OR COUNTRY?
Interesting video released by al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas' military wing) showing how it digs out water pipes meant for Gazans and uses them to make rockets that are fired indiscriminately at Israel. Absolutely evil. #Gaza pic.twitter.com/eV1DwOarVc
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The Iran-backed, Lebanese terror group Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire across the Lebanese-Israeli frontier for days, further raising tensions as Israel bombards the Gaza Strip to the south following an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian armed group Hamas inside Israel last week.
“All possible options and scenarios are therefore Hezbollah … Naturally, resistance leaders will not allow the Zionist regime to take any action in Gaza, and when it feels reassured about Gaza, move on to other resistance areas in the region,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said in a live broadcast to state TV late on Monday, as he referred to his meeting with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah the previous day.
“Therefore, any preemptive measure is imaginable in the coming hours.”
Amirabdollahian also said “the resistance leaders” will not allow Israel “to do whatever it wants in Gaza”. <— Really!?
“If we don’t defend Gaza today, tomorrow we have to defend against these [phosphorus] bombs in the children’s hospital of our own country,” he added, referring to allegations by human rights groups that Israel has been using phosphorus bombs in its aerial bombardment of Gaza. Israel has denied the allegation.
Reporting from southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said Amirabdollahian was seen “as the strongest yet”.
“Hezbollah has been engaged with Israel along the border for more than a week now. But that cross-border exchange of fire has been largely limited in scope and confined to the border areas and military targets,” she said, adding, however, that tensions were rising.
“People are worrying and bracing for the possibility of this conflict, which is now confined to the south of the country, to spread elsewhere.”
Speaking to Al Jazeera on Sunday, Amirabdollahian had also warned Israel of regional escalation if its forces entered Gaza for a ground offensive.
“If the measures aimed at immediately stopping the Israeli attacks that are killing children in the Gaza Strip end in a deadlock, it is highly probable that many other fronts will be opened. This option is not ruled out and this is becoming increasingly more probable,” Amir-Abdollahian said.
Israel RESPONDED TO war on Hamas AFTER the group running the Gaza Strip CROSSED THE BARRIER WITH waves of (ROCKETS STRUCK ISRAEL AND HAMAS FRIGHTERS ENTERED ISREAL AND MURDERED CITIZENS IN COLD BLOOD) and its fighters broke through Gaza’s heavily militarized border with Israel on October 7 and killed more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, according to Israeli authorities.
Israel has responded by pummelling the Gaza Strip with non-stop air and artillery attacks that have flattened neighbourhoods and killed at least 2,750 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to Palestinian officials.
Iran celebrated the Hamas assault but insisted it was not involved.
Monday’s remarks come as Israel prepares for a ground invasion into the Gaza Strip, where fears for Palestinians trapped in the heavily bombarded enclave have grown since Israel launched its aerial campaign.
BUT WAIT, THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS …
King Abdullah II shuts down talk of allowing Palestinians into Jordan, Egypt as ‘red line’
King Abdullah II of Jordan shut down the prospect of allowing Palestinian refugees fleeing northern Gaza into his country or Egypt, calling it a “red line” — amid a diplomatic campaign to establish safe zones within the besieged enclave.
Speaking at a press conference after meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin Tuesday, Abdullah categorically rejected the idea of offering Gazans a free passage into neighboring countries.
“There will be no refugees in Jordan and no refugees in Egypt,” the king declared, adding that the humanitarian situation must be contained inside Gaza and the West Bank.
“That is a red line, because I think that is the plan by certain of the usual suspects to try and create de facto issues on the ground,” Abdullah added.
He was apparently referring to Israel’s calls for some 1.1 million Gazans to head south, toward the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, ahead of Israel’s impending ground offensive.
Fearing an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees into its country, Egypt has resisted pressure to open the crossing, even to allow foreigners and Palestinians with dual nationality to pass, until humanitarian aid is allowed to flow into Gaza.
As part of international diplomatic efforts to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians trapped in Gaza, a bipartisan group of US Congress members has called on Egypt to establish and maintain safe zones in the southern part of the narrow enclave that is home to more than 2 million people.
The safe zones, Democrats and Republicans wrote in a letter to the Egyptian ambassador to the US Motaz Zahran cited by Axios, should include “humanitarian access corridors, for civilians seeking refuge from the fighting in the north of the [Gaza] Strip.”
UN-AGENCIES, UN-ACCEPTABLE, UN-ACCOMMODATING, UNACCOUNTABLE ...
During a whirlwind tour of Arab nations last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke out in support of creating “safe zones” in Gaza. He said he was working with UN-agencies, Israel and other governments in the region to implement the plan.
HAMAS TOOK NO PRECAUTIONS WHEN MURDERING INNOCENT ISRAELIS WHO THROUGH NO FAULT OF THIER OWN WERE OBLITERATED FROM THE HUMAN RACE!
“We have urged the Israelis to use every possible precaution to avoid harm to civilians,” Blinken said. “We recognize many Palestinian families in Gaza are suffering through no fault of their own and that Palestinian civilians have lost their lives.”
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Jordan’s monarch on Tuesday issued a dire warning that allowing the war to spread could have disastrous consequences for the Middle East.
“The whole region is on the brink of falling into the abyss,” Abdullah said. “All our efforts are needed to make sure we don’t get there.”
Scholz, who will travel to Israel later today, also warned against an escalation of hostilities.
“We have a common goal to prevent a conflagration in the region,” the chancellor said. “I once again expressly warn Hezbollah and Iran not to intervene in this conflict.”
Jordan on Wednesday will host a four-party summit in Amman with President Biden and Egyptian and Palestinian leaders to discuss the “dangerous” repercussions of the war in Gaza for the region, state media said.
The discussions would focus on ways to halt “the ongoing war in Gaza and ways to find a political horizon that would allow the revival of the peace process,” an official statement said. (REVIVAL OF WHAT PEACE PROCESS)
King Abdullah will also separately hold a summit with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
