Jerusalem – British Foreign Secretary David Cameron expressed, on Wednesday, his hope that Israel would act with “the least amount of escalation” in response to the Iranian retaliatory attack on Tel Aviv.
This came following a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in West Jerusalem, according to Israeli Army Radio.
Cameron said, according to the same source, “It is clear that Israel has decided to respond to the Iranian attack and we hope that it will act in a way that only leads to the least possible escalation.”
Cameron and German Foreign Minister Annalena Beriuk arrived in Israel at a time when Tel Aviv says it will respond to the Iranian attack that occurred on Saturday evening and Sunday morning with missiles and drones.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in a written statement, a copy of which was sent to Anadolu Agency, on Wednesday, that Foreign Minister Israel Katz met in West Jerusalem today with the British and German Foreign Ministers.
She said: “Minister Katz stressed to the two ministers the importance of continuing international pressure for the release of all those abducted by Hamas (in Gaza) and preventing any ceasefire without the release of the abductees.”
She added: “Katz thanked Minister Cameron for Britain’s participation in curbing the Iranian attack, and Minister Baerbock for Germany’s firm stance alongside Israel.”
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that Katz “made clear that Israel has the right to respond to the Iranian attack, and requested that the Revolutionary Guard be declared a terrorist organization and that sanctions be strengthened once morest the Iranian missile project.”
Katz claimed, according to the ministry, that “Iran and its proxies are endangering regional and global stability.” “Now we have a chance to rein it in.”
He added: “It is time to call the Revolutionary Guard by its true name – a terrorist organization and impose painful sanctions on Iran’s missile project.”
Neither Israel, Britain, nor Germany revealed the program of the two ministers’ visit to Israel.
On Saturday evening, Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones towards Israel, in response to a missile attack it accused Tel Aviv of carrying out, which targeted the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus at the beginning of this month.
Tel Aviv did not officially claim or deny responsibility for the Damascus attack, and both Iran and Israel consider the other country their first enemy, and there are decades of hostility and accusations of launching mutual attacks between them.
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2024-04-19 08:24:34
