Netanyahu goes straight on Iran, Lebanon flares up – News

Benyamin Netanyahu continues on his way and prepares the response to Iran’s attack despite strong international pressure to the contrary, with the USA and the G7 banking on sanctions against Tehran. But in the meantime the clash with Hezbollah is heating up on the northern border of Israel, which today saw 18 Israelis injured in the Galilee: 4 civilians and 14 soldiers, 6 of them seriously.

“I appreciate all kinds of suggestions and advice but I want to make it clear: we will make our own decisions and the State of Israel will do everything necessary to defend itself“, clarified the prime minister after meeting the British Foreign Minister David Cameron and his German colleague Annalena Baerbock, who arrived in Jerusalem to ask to avoid an escalation in the region. Cameron used an argument that many Israeli analysts have been using for days, and even ministers, they invoke in inviting Netanyahu to be cautious.

“Better to be intelligent rather than harsh. The real need – observed the head of the Foreign Office – is to return to focusing on Hamas, on the hostages, on the arrival of aid, on a pause in the conflict in Gaza”. A reasoning also proposed by minister Arieh Deri of the religious party Shas, who sits, as an auditor, in the small Israeli war cabinet. “It is better not to open more fronts” at the moment, Deri said, recalling that “there is an unfinished campaign in Gaza and that there are still hostages there”.

“I made it clear in the talks in Israel that the Middle East must not slide into a situation that has no certain end. Maximum moderation is needed. It is not giving in but avoiding a regional war”, also urged the head of German diplomacy Baerbock. But the warning from Netanyahu suggests that the decision has now been made.

To know more ANSA Agency Middle East, the story of the day – News – Ansa.it There are 14 injured, all soldiers, of which 6 are serious. Netanyahu to UK and Germany: ‘We have the right to self-defence’. The United States imposes new sanctions. Qatar: ‘Talks on a truce in the Strip have stalled. Erdogan announces: ‘The leader of Hamas will be in Türkiye over the weekend’ (ANSA)

The statements coming from Tehran are certainly not encouraging. “Iran’s retaliatory attack against Israel – warned Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi – was a limited and punitive action against the regime. If the Zionists take any action against our interests, Iran’s response will be very harder”.

“We advise enemies not to make any strategic mistakes, because Iran is ready to strike them, especially with Sukhoi-24 fightersthe Russian supersonic tactical bombers”, threatened the commander of the Tehran air force Hamid Vahedi, fearing an aerial duel in the skies of the Middle East between Soviet-era jets and the deadly Israeli F35s and F16s.

To know more ANSA Agency Moscow’s weapons in the hands of the ayatollahs – News – Ansa.it Bombers, advanced air defense systems, super-fast drones: these are the weapons Iran is counting on to defend itself from a potential counterattack by Israel on its territory. (HANDLE)

Meanwhile, it is the clash between Israel and Hezbollah that does not suffer any pause: In an attack claimed by Shiite militiamen, 14 soldiers and 4 civilians were injured in a “community center in the border town of Arab al-Aramshe”. Hezbollah instead claimed to have hit a military base “with drones and guided missiles” in response to the killing yesterday of three militiamen by Israel, including a brigade commander. An air reconnaissance base on Mount Meron was also attacked. The Jewish State responded by hitting, according to the military spokesperson, “the sources from which the rockets were fired” and then “a Hezbollah military complex and terror infrastructures in Naqura and Yarine, in southern Lebanon”.

AND while Qatar speaks of “a difficult phase” and “stalled” in negotiations for a truce in Gaza, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is expected in Turkey over the weekend by President Erdogan, for whom the Islamic faction “is not a terrorist organization”. “It is Netanyahu who is dragging the region into war to stay in power”, was the accusation launched today by Ankara through the mouth of Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

To know more ANSA Agency Mattarella: ‘The risk that the conflict in the Middle East will spread is dramatically present’ – News – Ansa.it The head of state after the conversation with the Bulgarian president: “We talked about the dramatic humanitarian crisis in Gaza, about the risk that the conflict will spread: a risk that is dramatically present. And we talked about the only possible solution which is that of the ‘two states and two peoples’ (ANSA)

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