Herzog, speaking to the Chatham House thinktank immediately after the meeting, said he had offered the British government a fact-finding mission to look at the levels of aid entering Gaza. He denied there was any famine and blamed the high civilian death toll on Hamas placing missiles in living rooms. He offered no apology for the attack on Hamas's leadership in Doha on Tuesday, accusing Qatar of being allies of Hamas rather than mediators.
What we're heading toward is the snapback scenario where the sanctions come back and Iran is likely to retaliate in some way that's unhelpful, said Ryan Costello, the policy director at the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). And the tensions could escalate into renewed violence after the Israeli attacks on Iran earlier this year. It's another kind of domino falling on the way toward the June war reigniting, Costello said.
Japan is a great ally of us. And I had a little bit of a hard time getting your two together because you're still thinking about Comfort Women, right? Comfort Women! That's all they wanted to talk about was Comfort Women. And I thought that was settled a few times over the decades.
Relations between the two leaders have been strained since July, when Macron announced that France would become the first major western power to recognise a Palestinian state at next month's UN general assembly, in the hope of bringing peace to the region. At the time, Netanyahu, who is wanted by the international criminal court over allegations of war crimes in Gaza, criticised the decision, saying that France rewards terror.
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that Sputnik operated through "illegal financing," prompting police raids amidst escalating tensions following the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis.
India's missile strikes in Pakistani-controlled territory have escalated tensions in Kashmir, prompting strong reactions from both nations, which have a long-standing dispute over the region.
