Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi sent a letter to the leaders of 50 countries, including Russia and China, urging them to put pressure on Israel regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip and the radical Hamas movement. My Tasnim.
Letters also came from Türkiye, Kazakhstan, South Africa and Kenya. Jordan.
In the document, the Iranian leader called on the presidents of the mentioned countries for “unity and coordination in the actions of free and independent countries to put pressure on Israel.”
On November 12, an Arab-Islamic summit was held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, with the participation of the leaders of Turkey and Iran. Participants at the event put forward the basic condition for establishing peaceful relations with Israel. The preconditions for peace were the end of the “occupation of all Arab lands” in Palestine from 1967, that is, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Formerly political scientist named One of the reasons why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict flared up.