Israel’s Foreign Minister accused Iran this Wednesday of promoting instability in the Middle East to end “the peace process” in the region and rejected all claims for Palestinian territory.
“There is no dispute between Israel and the Palestinians over territory in Gaza, we do not want to dispute a single millimeter. There has not been a single Israeli in Gaza since 2005. Our desire is to live peacefully with our neighbors,” Eli said. Cohen, during a meeting at the European Parliament (EP), in Brussels.
The head of Israeli diplomacy added that the war with the Islamist movement Hamas, which started after an attack carried out by the group a month ago, “It is not a war for the state of Israel, it is a war for the free world.”
“We have to win [o conflito] to ensure that the West is not next,” Eli Cohen dramatized.
And he argued that organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad have one element in common: Tehran.
“There is one thing that connects them all: Iran, which wants to put an end to normalization [das relações entre Telavive e os países árabes da região] and the peace process,” he charged.
The Foreign Minister was accompanied to the EP by five Israeli citizens, relatives of Hamas hostages, who expressed their concerns.
They all had a common cry: more efforts from European countries to put an end to the kidnappings.
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7 with the launch of thousands of rockets and the raid of armed militiamen, killing more than 1,400 people, wounding thousands and taking more than 200 hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, a movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, by bombing several of the group’s infrastructure facilities in the Gaza Strip and imposing a total siege of the territory, cutting off water, fuel and electricity supplies. were closed.
Source: DN
