Diplomatic pressure mounts to prevent escalation between Iran and Israel amid high-profile killings.
This picture taken from northern Israel near the border with Lebanon shows smoke billowing during Israeli bombardment above the Lebanese Wazzani area on August 5, 2024. – Fallout from the Gaza war is regularly felt on the Israel-Lebanon frontier, where deadly cross-border exchanges have escalated between Israeli troops and mainly Hezbollah fighters.
Palestinian armed group Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran on Wednesday, in an attack blamed on Israel which has not directly commented on it, hours after an Israeli strike on Beirut left Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr dead. Turkey on Monday joined multiple Western and other nations calling on their citizens to leave Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based.ALSO READ:Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, whose country currently holds the rotating G7 presidency, said in a statement: “Together with our partners, we have expressed strong concern about recent events that threaten to determine a regionalisation of the crisis, starting from Lebanon”.
“The Iranians must find other ways to spare Jordan this embarrassment,” Rantawi, director of the Amman-based Al Quds Center for Political Studies, told AFP. On the Israeli side, including the annexed Golan Heights, 22 soldiers and 25 civilians have been killed, according to army figures.
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