Iran warns of consequences if Israeli operation continues

Iran’s mission to the UN said that if the Israeli authorities do not immediately stop the genocide in the Gaza Strip, the situation in the region could get out of control. RIA Novosti reports this.

On social media X, the Iranian side said that “if the war crimes and genocide of Israeli apartheid are not stopped immediately, the situation may get out of control.” Iran announced “far-reaching consequences” and noted that responsibility for the development of the situation would be taken away from the UN and its Security Council, as well as countries that “lead the Council into a dead end.”

On October 7, Israel was attacked by the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, which carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. After a rocket attack, a centurion of Hamas fighters entered Israeli territory. Subsequently, Israel launched a retaliatory Operation Iron Swords, returned control of all settlements near the border with Gaza, and began to attack Gaza with aircraft and missiles, and also blocked supplies of water, food, electricity, medicine, and fuel to the region.

The number of victims of the exacerbation on both sides has long exceeded a thousand; among the dead there are citizens of Russia and many other countries. The Israel Defense Forces reported that Hamas was holding more than 120 civilians hostage in the Gaza Strip.

The Russian Foreign Ministry appealed to both sides to stop the fighting. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the conflict cannot be resolved otherwise than on the basis of a decision of the UN Security Council, which provides for the creation of an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with its capital in East Jerusalem.

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, in a telephone conversation with his Israeli counterpart, pointed out the importance of following the “law of war” amid the worsening Palestinian-Israeli conflict, RIA Novosti reports, citing a statement from the US Department of Defense.

By ordering the evacuation of more than 2,000 patients from 22 hospitals in northern Gaza, Israeli authorities are effectively imposing a death sentence on patients, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. WHO also notes the growing number of wounded people being admitted to hospitals in northern Gaza, as well as the fact that health facilities are operating beyond their capacity. The organization called on Israeli authorities to immediately lift evacuation orders for hospitals in northern Gaza, and to protect medical facilities, their workers and patients, as well as civilians in general.