TEHRAN: Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on Sunday that militant groups would carry on confronting Israel with Tehran’s help following the killing of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Iranian state media reported.
An alliance known as the Axis of Resistance, built up over decades with Iranian support, includes the Palestinian group Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Yemen’s Houthis, and various Shiite Muslim armed groups in Iraq and Syria.
Israel said it killed Nasrallah in an airstrike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday. Hezbollah confirmed he had been killed, without saying how.
“We will not hesitate to go to any level in order to help the resistance,” Qalibaf said.
He also issued a warning to the United States.
“The US is complicit in all of these crimes and...has to accept the repercussions,” he said.
Also commenting on Nasrallah’s killing, Iranian Foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said Israel “will not rest” and the action would not go unanswered, state media reported on Sunday. He said the region was in a dangerous situation.
Iran Revolutionary Guards’ deputy commander Abbas Nilforoushan was also killed in the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
Iran’s parliament speaker says militant groups will go on confronting Israel
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Iran’s parliament speaker says militant groups will go on confronting Israel
- He also issued a warning to the United States
Diplomatic efforts for ceasefire with Israel underway, Lebanese minister says
“It is certain that the Lebanese government wants a ceasefire, and everyone knows that (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu went to New York based on the premise of a ceasefire, but the decision was made to assassinate Nasrallah,” Makary said.
The death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was confirmed on Saturday, heightening tensions between Lebanon and Israel after months of conflict along their shared border.
“Diplomatic efforts to achieve a ceasefire are ongoing. The Prime Minister is not falling short, but the matter is not that easy,” he added.
Omani FM calls for end to Israel’s ‘genocidal policies’ against Palestinians
- Addressing UN General Assembly, Badr Al-Busaidi calls for Palestinian state, full membership
- There should be ‘immediate’ ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon, Red Sea region
WASHINGTON: Oman’s foreign minister called on Saturday for an immediate end to Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Badr Al-Busaidi told the UN General Assembly in New York that Oman is fully committed to the promotion of international peace as a core mission of the organization.
“Oman calls for an immediate ceasefire and cessation of hostilities in Gaza, Lebanon and the Red Sea region,” he said.
“We emphasize the need to address the root causes of these conflicts by ending the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and achieving justice for the Palestinian people based on a two-state solution, leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, along the 1967 borders,” he added.
“Oman stresses the necessity of granting Palestine full membership in the UN and ending the genocidal policies carried out by Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people, alleviating the humanitarian suffering they endure.”
Since last October, Israel has killed over 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and in the last week it has killed hundreds of Lebanese.
Al-Busaidi said Oman’s foreign policy is founded on dialogue and tolerance as a means to address all challenges and issues, based on mutual respect, cooperation and harmony among nations.
Domestically, he said Oman is working on building a sustainable and diversified economy, and fostering social development, including the empowerment of women and youth.
Al-Busaidi added that the country’s Vision 2040 will bring empowerment and prosperity to the different segments of Omani society.
He expressed Oman’s commitment to promoting “peaceful coexistence” and “respect,” and urging nations worldwide to fight “against all forms of discrimination, racism, hatred and violence.”
UN sends emergency food aid for one million Lebanese
ROME: The World Food Programme on Sunday said it had launched an emergency operation to provide meals for one million people affected by the escalating conflict in Lebanon.
“A further acceleration of the conflict this weekend underscored the need for an immediate humanitarian response,” the Rome-based agency said in a statement, announcing that it was distributing ready-to-eat food rations, bread, hot meals and food parcels to shelters across the country.
Israel on Sunday said that it was carrying out new air strikes on dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, two days after killing the Iran-backed group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in bombing raids outside Beirut.
His killing marked a sharp escalation in nearly a year of tit-for-tat cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah since the latter’s Palestinian ally Hamas staged its unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The bombing in Lebanon is “compounding the fragility of a population burdened by accumulated crises,” the WFP said.
“In just a few days, WFP assistance has reached thousands of newly displaced people,” the program’s country director for Lebanon, Matthew Hollingworth, said in the statement.
“As the crisis deepens, we are preparing to assist up to one million people through a mix of cash and food support,” he added, calling on the international community to mobilize $105 million to fund the operation through to the end of the year.
“Lebanon is at a breaking point and cannot endure another war,” said WFP regional director Corinne Fleischer.
Grad missile from Lebanon falls in Jordan
- The missile was likely fired at Israel by Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group
AMMAN: Jordan’s military says a Grad missile fired from Southern Lebanon fell in an open area without causing casualties or damage, state news agency PETRA reported on Sunday.
A military official of the Jordanian Armed Forces Saturday said the Grad missile fell in an uninhabited desert area in Muwaqqar south of Amman.
No damages or casualties were reported.
Security source added that the air defense systems "will deal with any activity of other missiles or drones trying to violate Jordanian airspace."
Jordan and Israel, which share borders, signed a peace treaty in 1994. The Western-allied Arab country also helped intercept missiles fired at Israel by Iran in April.
Jordan has been fiercely critical of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians and has repeatedly called for a ceasefire in Gaza. It has also said it will not allow its territory to become a battlefield as tensions mount between Israel and Iran.
Lebanon’s top Christian cleric calls for diplomacy following Nasrallah’s killing
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s top Christian cleric urged diplomacy in the conflict between Israel and Lebanese group Hezbollah, and said Israel’s killing of the group’s chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, had wounded the hearts of the Lebanese people.
