Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaks by phone with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss “the dangerous escalation taking place in the region and the steps required to stop it,” according to the Jordanian readout.
Safadi stresses that stopping Israel’s war in Gaza “must be the main immediate priority.” He also repeats his condemnation of the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, calling it “a heinous crime, a violation of international law, and a dangerous escalation.”
FM Katz urges dozens of countries to demand Hezbollah’s withdrawal from Israel border
Foreign Minister Israel Katz sends a letter to dozens of foreign ministers, calling on them to demand “an immediate cessation of Hezbollah’s attacks, its withdrawal to north of the Litani River, and its disarmament in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1701.”
“Israel is not interested in an all-out war,” he continues, “but the only way to prevent it is the immediate implementation of Resolution 1701.”
Katz also says that in the strike on Hezbollah military head Fuad Shukr, Israel “sent a clear message: We will harm with great force whoever harms us.”
Israel’s ‘non-rights’: Some of Haniyeh’s last words
Channel 12 broadcasts what it says were some of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s final public remarks, hours before his death.
In an excerpt of a television interview he gave in Tehran yesterday, Haniyeh refers to meetings he had been holding with Iran’s leadership and welcomes what he says was the new Iranian prime minister’s reiteration of “the permanent stance of the Islamic Republic, on the Palestinian issue, on resistance, on Jerusalem.”
Adds Haniyeh approvingly: “We also heard his stance on Israel’s non-right to any centimeter of the land of Palestine.”
Iran says US bears ‘responsibility’ as supporter of Israel in killing of Hamas chief
Dismay in Gaza, and rare open support for Hamas in West Bank after Haniyeh killing
Palestinian demonstrators have marched through Ramallah and other cities in the West Bank in protest against the killing. They carried dozens of green Hamas flags and chanted, “The people want al-Qassam Brigades,” a reference to the group’s military wing.
Open support in Ramallah for Hamas is rare. Ramallah is the administrative capital of the West Bank and is governed by the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, long at odds with Hamas over the governance of the two Palestinian territories.
Reports of explosion in Damascus suburb with heavy Iran presence
Netanyahu to convene security cabinet after killing of top Hezbollah, Hamas leaders
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene the security cabinet today, his office announces.
The meeting comes in the wake of the assassinations of top Hezbollah and Hamas officials.
Revolutionary Guards say Iran and proxies will respond to Haniyeh’s assassination
The assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran “will be met with a harsh and painful response,” Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards military force says in a statement.
“Iran and the resistance front will respond to this crime,” it says, employing a term Tehran uses to refer to its proxies across the Middle East.
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