Israel-Palestine conflict:Iran warns Israel of regional escalation if Gaza ground offensive launched

Iran warns that any Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip could expand the scope of the conflict elsewhere in the Middle East.

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Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets with Palestinian group Hamas's top leader Ismail Haniyeh in Doha on Saturday

Tehran, Iran – Iran has warned Israel of regional escalation if the Israeli military enters Gaza for a ground invasion as the war with Hamas enters its second week.

“If the measures aimed at immediately stopping the Israeli attacks that are killing children in the Gaza Strip end in a deadlock, it is highly probable that many other fronts will be opened. This option is not ruled out and this is becoming increasingly more probable,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Al Jazeera on Sunday.

“If the Zionist entity [Israel] decides to enter Gaza, the resistance leaders will turn it into a graveyard of the occupation soldiers,” he added.

Since the Palestinian armed group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack inside the Israeli territory on October 7, Israeli air strikes have killed more than 2,670 people – a quarter of them children – and wounded nearly 10,000 others in Gaza, where a catastrophic humanitarian crisis is unfolding.

The United Nations estimates one million people – nearly half of Gaza’s population – have been forced from their homes, as the Israeli military prepares for an expected ground invasion.

At least 1,400 people, including 289 soldiers and some foreign nationals, have been killed on the Israeli side, officials said on Sunday.

Amir-Abdollahian on Saturday met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar, where they discussed the Gaza crisis “and agreed to continue cooperation”, Hamas said in a statement.

Also on Saturday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said all Islamic nations have a duty to come to the aid of the Palestinians.

Iran has also engaged in a diplomatic offensive in an effort to stop the Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Amir-Abdollahian also visited Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, where he met President Bashar al-Assad after Israel bombed the airports in Aleppo and Damascus.

Earlier on Sunday, the Iranian minister met Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha.

“If the attacks of the Zionist regime against civilians and the defenceless people of Gaza persist, no one can guarantee that the situation will be under control and the scope of the fighting won’t expand,” he told Qatar’s emir, who also earlier held a telephone conversation with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

Amirabdollahian meets the emir

Amir-Abdollahian reiterated Tehran’s call for an urgent meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Gaza.

Regional power Saudi Arabia has reportedly put its normalisation talks with Israel on hold, with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday holding talks with the Iranian president on the Israel-Hamas war – their first phone call since restoring diplomatic ties.

Meanwhile, Israel is also preparing for the possibility that the war may expand to multiple fronts. It said it bombed the airports in Syria to stop potential Iranian mobilisation efforts there.

On Sunday, Israel declared its border with Lebanon a closed military zone as clashes with Hezbollah continued.

On Saturday, the US-based news website Axios reported that Iran has warned Israel through the UN that it does not want the Gaza conflict to escalate, but will have to respond if Israeli strikes continue.
Iran has not officially commented on the Axios report.

How Iranian media covered the Gaza war
The Iranian media have extensively covered the recent developments, especially the losses suffered by Israel since the Hamas attacks last week.

In the first few days of the war, several Iranian newspapers used an image of Palestinians standing on top of a captured Israeli tank and waving the Palestinian flag as their front page cover.

“Mortal wound” – said a headline in “Iran”, the official newspaper of the government, which in its op-ed said scenes created by Hamas in the occupied territories “seemed apocalyptic” and showed “cowardly Zionists running away”.

Kayhan, the ultraconservative newspaper whose editor-in-chief is directly appointed by Ayatollah Khamenei, said four “catastrophes” await Israel if it decides to go ahead with a ground assault on Gaza: sustaining heavy casualties due to the complexities of urban warfare; risking the lives of dozens of Israelis taken captive by Hamas; facing mounting pressure from the international community; and growing “regional isolation” as normalisation hopes fade.

Khorasan, another conservative newspaper, went with “The Unprecedented Humiliation of the ‘Losing Horse’” as its main headline earlier this week – a reference to comments made by Khamenei, who warned that any country that decides to normalise relations with Israel will engage in a “losing gamble”.

“As the Europeans say, they are betting on the losing horse,” Khamenei had said.

But highlighting the big hit inside Israeli territory and how it retaliated by targeting civilians in Gaza was not limited to conservative newspapers only. More moderate and reformist media outlets also raised similar issues in their coverage of the conflict.

“Israel’s Black Saturday” was the headline in the reformist Shargh, while Etemad detailed how Hamas had “attacked the heart of occupied Palestine”.

Etemad also underlined the 2.2 million Gazans in danger and Israel’s “impossible” order for over one million to flee northern Gaza as it cut off their water, electricity and internet. The newspaper also condemned Israel’s illegal use of white phosphorus on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

“The political condition inside Israel is quickly turning against [Israeli PM] Benjamin Netanyahu and the ruling coalition due to hit the Zionist regime took from the resistance forces,” it wrote.

FreeStuffsNG:
Abeg Iran o. The world is not ready for another proxy war between US and Russia/ China/ Iran trio where only innocent people and their children will keep dying on both sides.

MasterJayJay:


Stop begging terrorists!!

Hama's and Iran go collect wotowoto.

FreeStuffsNG:

Righteousness2:
As the Muslim nations are fixing to surround Israel, here are key prophetic events that are on the line for Fufillment.

In no particular order,

1. DAMASCUS SYRIA turned to Runious Heap Isaiah 17:1

2. GOG MAGOG war. Ezekiel 38 and 39.
Here a collation of nations led by Russia, Turkey and Iran invades Israel to plunder her wealth. Israel's weapons abd expertise will not be able to save them. GOD ALMIGHTY Himself, takes over the battle and Crushes the invaders.

3. Psalm 83 war. Where the Islamic nations around Israel come for here with a plan to delete Israel from the map.
This looks like what is trying to happen now.

4. ISRAELI STRIKE ON IRAN'S FOREMOST STRENGTH. Which under a likely strike on Iran Nuclear facility. Jeremiah 49:34-39.

In all these Battles , GOD ALMIGHTY takes the Glory as He defends HIS Chosen Nation and gives them victory.

Somewhere in the midst of these wars is the antichrist who steps out on the World stage and deceived those on Earth with PEACE AND SECURITY..

One Fact that is clear as day light is that we are living in the last moments of this dispensation of Grace.

The RAPTURE of the Church can Happen anytime now.

Earth is preparing for a war… Heaven is preparing for a wedding!!!

Come into relationship with JESUS quickly! There is no more time.

Come Lord Jesus!!!

Revelation 3:10-11
King James Version

10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Whalis:
Iran should bring it on and stop saberrattling. We have gone beyond that stage. Israel wants to locate the stockpile of munitions Iran has transferred to Hamas. Israel doesn't need a lasting peace but a permanent one. There is no other time to achieve that other than now.