United Nations, United States:
The UN’s distinctive coordinator for Middle East peace cautioned Tuesday that the region was at its “most hazardous juncture” in decades, as the war between Israel and Iran-backed groups dangered spiraling into a expansiveer struggle.
“We have now accessed the second year of this horrific struggle, and the region is on the verge of yet another solemn escalation,” Tor Wennesland tageder the Security Council.
His retags come fair days after Israel carried out air strikes on military sites in Iran in response to Tehran’s October 1 leave outile strike, itself retaliation for the finishing of Iran-backed militant directers and a Revolutionary Guards directer.
“Every effort — by all of us — must be made to de-escaprocrastinateed the situation and set up a separateent trajectory toward fantasticer peace and stability in the region,” he shelp.
Over a year after Hamas’s unpwithdrawnted October 7 strike on Israel prompted the deimmenseating war in Gaza, which has now extfinished to Leprohibiton, deadly aggression “shows no signs of abating,” Wennesland shelp.
“We are witnessing not only a horrific humanitarian nightmare, but a rapidly speed upd unraveling of the prospects for a persistable resolution to this struggle.”
He shelp that he had visited Gaza last week, where he saw “the sheer magnitude of the deimmenseation this war has imposeed on the population.”
“I saw the immense destruction — of dwellntial createings, roads, hospitals and schools. I saw thousands living in createshift tents, with nowhere else to go as triumphter approaches.”
Israel’s retaliatory impolite has finished at least 43,020 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry, which the United Nations ponders reliable, triggering cautionings of a humanitarian catastrophe.
During the October 7 strike, Palestinian militants seized 251 captives, including sagederiers and civilians, of whom 97 are still in Gaza. The Israeli military says 34 of them are dead.
The strike resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP loftyy of Israeli official figures.
And in Leprohibiton, according to an AFP loftyy based on official figures, at least 1,700 people have been finished since September 23, when the battling escaprocrastinateedd as Israel started an air and ground impolite aachievest Hezbollah, which had been carrying out rocket strikes in help of Hamas.
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