Iran indicated on Wednesday that it could intervene in Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza if a ceasefire is not reached soon.as he considers the entire region his “home,” EFE reported.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amir Abdolahian made this veiled threat during his visit to Turkey: “This is our region, our home, and we will not wait for anyone’s permission to address what is happening in our home“.
“We hope that a ceasefire will come soon and that the genocide and violence of the United States and Israel will come to an end. If the attacks on women and children continue, the cost they will have to pay will be very high,” the minister said at a press conference. together with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan.
He did not specify how his country would carry out a possible intervention, but recalled that Stronghold of the Islamist organization Hezbollah, which operates from Lebanon with the support of Tehran.
Abdolahian said his country would first try to exhaust all diplomatic resources to bring about an end to the war that Israel declared against Hamas after that terrorist group’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7th.
—This Wednesday, Turkey accused the European Union (EU) of “not wanting to hear anything” about a ceasefire and of giving Israel a free hand in the war against the Islamist organization Hamas in Gaza..
“We are committed to a ceasefire and humanitarian aid. But the EU doesn’t want to hear about a ceasefire. It does nothing for humanitarian aid,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hosein Amir Abdolahian, on an official visit to Ankara.
“You stand with the United States and are in favor of Israel deciding when (the war) should end,” Fidan accused the European Union.
– Multiple batches of Palestinians with foreign passports left the Gaza Strip this Wednesday via the Rafah border crossing towards Egyptand their number is expected to reach 400 by the end of the day.
EFE was able to verify the departure of several groups of Palestinians through the border crossing from the Gaza Strip controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, as well as 81 ambulances with 81 wounded people on board.
Palestinians with US passports have received an email from their country’s embassy informing them that they will be evacuated from Gaza to Egypt within the next 24 to 72 hours.
The British Embassy has also contacted Palestinians with British nationality in the Gaza Strip to inform them that they will be removed from the enclave within the next 27 to 36 hours.
The General Agency for Border Crossing in Gaza, which is under Hamas’ Interior Ministry, posted on its Facebook page a list of about 500 people, including both Palestinians with foreign passports and citizens of other countries who had been granted permission to leave the Strip.
This opening was the result of a Agreement between Egypt, Hamas and Israel, brokered by Qatar and coordinated with the United Statessources familiar with the negotiations confirmed to EFE.
– This morning, the Rafah border crossing, the only entrance and exit into the besieged Palestinian territory not in Israel’s hands, opened its gates to dozens of ambulances to rescue the wounded and treat them in Egyptian hospitals. Shortly afterwards, Egypt confirmed that it would receive 81 seriously injured people, at least 40 of whom had already crossed the border and been taken to hospitals in northern Sinai.
— There will be new exchanges of fire on the border between Lebanon and Israel this Wednesday, with attacks by Lebanese militias against Israeli army positions. which responded with artillery fire, the army reported in a statement.
An unidentified Lebanese armed group attempted to fire several anti-tank missiles from Lebanese territory toward Israel, but was neutralized by an Israeli tank, the note said.
In addition, another Lebanese armed group opened fire from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the Yiftah area without causing any casualties, the Israeli army said, noting that the troops opened fire towards the area where the Shots were fired, EFE said.
—The number of deaths in Gaza from Israeli bombings has risen to almost 8,800 and the number of injured is over 22,219Ashraf Al Qudra, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the enclave controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, reported this on Wednesday.
According to him, among the deceased are at least 3,698 minors and almost 2,300 women, while Israel’s intensive bombing campaign and its ground operation in the Gaza Strip continue, which is mired in a serious humanitarian crisis and extreme shortages due to the almost total Israeli blockade that prohibits the import of food, Water, fuel or medicine.
The Israeli military said today it has struck more than 11,000 Hamas targets since the war against Palestinian militias began on October 7, when the Islamist group’s militants launched a surprise attack on Israel that included a ground attack which killed more than 1,400 people.
– The World Health Organization (WHO) “gives terrorists carte blanche to use health infrastructure for their actions,” the Israeli embassy to the United Nations in Geneva said after days of crossroads. Allegations between Israel and the United Nations over attacks on hospitals.
In a message posted on its official X account last night, the Israeli mission stressed that “hospitals should never be a target, but neither should they be used as a shield.”
—The al-Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamist group Hamas, announced on Wednesday that seven hostages were killed in Israeli bombings at the Jabalia refugee camp yesterday., in the north of the Gaza Strip. Abu Obeida said on Tuesday that they would release “more hostages” taken during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel “in the coming days.”
—Hamas, which de facto governs the Gaza Strip, welcomed the Bolivian government’s decision to break off diplomatic relations with “the occupying power” over Israel.
“We highly praise the bold stance of the Bolivian government to break off relations with the Zionist entity, which came in response to the fascist Israeli aggression and the cruel massacres that were being carried out every minute against our people in the already blockaded Gaza Strip,” it said a statement from the group cited by EFE.
On the other hand, Israel accused the Bolivian government of “capitulating to terrorism and the Ayatollah regime in Iran.”