2023-10-15 15:19:00
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian meets with the top leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in Doha, Qatar, on October 14, 2023
The United States fears an “escalation” of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and a possible “direct involvement of Iran,” the White House National Security Advisor said on Sunday.
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Interviewed on CBS television, Jake Sullivan cited the possibility of a new battle front on the border between Israel and Lebanon and noted: “We cannot rule out that Iran decides to get directly involved in some way. “We have to prepare for any eventuality.”
“It is a risk, and it is a risk that we have been aware of since the beginning” of the conflict, added Joe Biden’s advisor. “That’s why the president acted so quickly and decisively to move an aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean, to bring planes to the Gulf, because he sent a very clear message to any state or entity that tries to take advantage of this situation,” Sullivan said.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (Europa Press)
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Saturday that the United States would send a second aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean, in order to “deter hostile actions against Israel or any attempt to expand this war.” The USS Eisenhower and its escort ships will join the first aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, deployed to the region after Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel on October 7.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return to Israel on Monday for his second visit in less than a week after having traveled to six Arab countries, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Sunday. The American official began a tour of the region to mediate in the conflict between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas, which has already left thousands of Israelis, Palestinians and foreigners dead, and hundreds of thousands displaced in the Gaza Strip.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian warned this Sunday in Doha, Qatar, that “no one” will be able to “guarantee control of the situation” if Israel launches a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. “If the attacks of the Zionist regime against the defenseless population of Gaza continue, no one will be able to guarantee control of the situation and the prospect of an extension of the conflict,” declared the minister, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic. Islamic.
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Israel is accumulating troops around the Palestinian enclave, which it has bombed daily since October 7 in response to the bloody offensive launched by Hamas, the deadliest attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement since the creation of the Jewish State.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited frontline troops in the south near Gaza on Saturday wearing a bulletproof vest. “Are you prepared for what’s coming?” he said. “More is coming.”
Israel’s military spokesmen have repeatedly said the army is prepared for a ground operation, but awaiting a “political decision” on the timing.
Special forces have carried out raids in Gaza and recovered the bodies of some of the 126 confirmed hostages taken by Hamas, the military said without specifying how many.
Israel has warned 1.1 million Palestinians to leave northern Gaza, and since then a steady stream of families in overloaded cars, trucks and donkey carts has headed south.
Israel has accused Hamas of preventing them from fleeing to use them as “human shields.”
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