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Iran on Sunday warned the United States to keep its military forces away from Israel.
The comments came on a post on social platform X and mentioned the possibility of the US sending one of its high-altitude terminal area defense systems to Israel.
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One step in the complex system, known in Israel by the acronym THAAD, involves sending troops to operate it.
Israel has intensified its campaign against Hezbollah with heavy airstrikes across Lebanon and a wave of ground attacks along the border after a year of gunfights. Israel is now at war with Hamas in Gaza and with Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, in Lebanon.
More than 42,000 Palestinians were killed in Israel's offensive in Gaza, according to local health authorities, who did not say how many were fighters, but said more than half of those killed were women and children.
The war has devastated large areas of Gaza and displaced almost 90 percent of its 2.3 million inhabitants.
Hamas-led militants have punched holes in Israel's security cordon and invaded military bases and farming communities, killing nearly 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapping another 250. They still hold around 100 people inside Gaza, a third of whom have escaped. believes they are dead.
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Netanyahu says UN peacekeepers are acting as human shields for Hezbollah
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon of acting as human shields for Hezbollah, after five of them were injured in an Israeli attack in recent days.
The Israeli military has warned UNIFIL to evacuate southern Lebanon to carry out air and ground operations against Hezbollah militants, but peacekeepers have so far refused to do so.
Netanyahu said on Sunday that the refusal to release them had the effect of providing human shields to Hezbollah terrorists, saying they had become Hezbollah hostages.
We regret the injuries suffered by UNIFIL soldiers and are doing everything we can to prevent these injuries. But the easiest and most obvious way to ensure this is to get them out of the danger zone, he said in a video addressed to the UN secretary-general, who is banned from entering Israel.
The military ordered peacekeeping forces to move five kilometers (three miles) north, effectively preventing them from carrying out their mission. They have already stopped patrolling due to air and ground attacks.
Israel has long accused the United Nations of partisanship and relations have soured since the start of the war in Gaza. He accused the UN agency for Palestinian refugees of infiltrating Hamas, an accusation the agency denies.
Iran's foreign minister warned US against sending troops to Israel
DUBAI – Iran's foreign minister indirectly threatened potential US forces in Israel in an online post on Sunday.
The comments were made in a post on the X social platform linked to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who helped reach Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
In the message, Araghchi mentioned that the United States could send one of its terminal high-altitude area defense systems to Israel. Any deployment of any of the systems, known in Israel by the acronym THAAD, involves sending troops to operate the complex system.
According to Message X, the United States is supplying Israel with a record amount of weapons. They are now risking their lives by sending their troops to operate US missile systems in Israel.
He added: Although we have made great efforts in recent days to contain the all-out war in our region, I categorically state that we do not have a red line to protect our people and our interests.
Iran's Foreign Ministry did not respond to requests for comment on the comments, carried by Iranian state media.
Israel is believed to be planning an attack on Iran because of its missile barrage on Israel earlier this month, the second direct attack on Israel during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that has spread to Lebanon and implicated other supported militant groups by Iran in the conflict. region.
THAAD is a defensive system that shoots down incoming ballistic missiles, like the one Iran fired in its last attack.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Sunday reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire and called for respect for UN peacekeeping forces in the region.
I continue to follow with concern what is happening in the Middle East, said the Pope during the Angelus prayer on the balcony of St. Peter's Square.
We will follow the path of diplomacy and dialogue to achieve peace, he added, stressing that he feels close to all the people involved: Palestine, Israel, Lebanon. He prayed for all those affected, displaced, hostages and said he hoped they would be released immediately.
The Pope wished that this great and unnecessary suffering caused by hatred and revenge would end soon.
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