António Guterres says violence puts region at risk as Hezbollah and Israel seem unwilling to dial down fighting
António Guterres, the UN secretary general, said the ‘level of impunity in the world is politically indefensible and morally intolerable’.António Guterres, the UN secretary general, said the ‘level of impunity in the world is politically indefensible and morally intolerable’.is on the brink of becoming a second Gaza, adding the crisis has “become a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the whole region down”.
The EU foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, said the escalation between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah was already almost a full-fledged war. “If this is not a war situation, I don’t know what you would call it,” he said. When asked whether Iran would counsel Hezbollah to restrain itself in its response to Israeli strikes, Pezeshkian said Hezbollah was facing a country “armed to the teeth and has access to weapons systems that are far superior to anything else”.Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said Iran would not fall into what he described as a “trap” set by Israel. “ think that they can get out of their deadlock by expanding the battlefield.
US officials have been acknowledging for weeks that although most of the ceasefire terms are agreed between Israel and Hamas, the remaining gaps are large and unbridgeable. On Israel, he said nothing could justify the abhorrent acts of terror committed by Hamas against Israelis on 7 October but added that “nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people”.
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