Deadly attacks in Tehran, Beirut put the lives of Jewish people at risk
Akiva Eldar, a political analyst based in Tel Aviv, says the killing of Haniyeh and the deadly attack in Beirut is going to put the lives of Jewish people at risk.
“It’s like opening a beehive without protective cloth that Israel believes it has from the international community,” he said. He cited the 1994 killing of dozens of Jews in a bombing in the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires.
On the response from Israel, Eldar said that “there is more than one Israel, there is Netanyahu Israel and there is Israel that lost complete trust in Netanyahu”.
“The families of the captives and millions of Israelis who worry today and ask themselves how they are getting close to get back home or we can say goodbye to the deal with Hamas and prospect of ending this war,” he said.
“Is there any hope to put an end to the conflict or are we looking at escalation?”
Netanyahu’s reckoning gets postponed again as region plunges into chaos
Wadie Said, a professor of law at the University of Colorado School of Law, described the attacks on Hezbollah’s Shukr in Beirut and Hamas’s Haniyeh in Tehran as an “incredibly dangerous series of events”.
“And I have to question what the US knew, and how it would possibly process such an incredible escalation,” he told Al Jazeera.
The academic went on to suggest that Haniyeh’s assassination may benefit Netanyahu.
“It came amid a lot of coverage about how Israeli security and military figures were very frustrated because Netanyahu personally seemed to be holding up the talks for a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange and ending the horrendous genocidal conflict in Gaza,” Said noted. “In addition, we just had the scenes from yesterday of Israelis rioting for their right to abuse and even rape Palestinian detainees, and then now, Netanyahu gets to have his day of political reckoning postponed as the region gets plunged into further chaos and more suffering.”
Iran’s president vows to make Israel ‘regret cowardly action’
Masoud Pezeshkian has issued a statement saying Tehran will defend its territorial integrity and dignity.
Here’s the full statement released by state media:
“Today, dear Iran is mourning its sharer of sorrows and joys, the constant and proud companion of the path of resistance, the brave leader of the Palestinian resistance, the martyr of al-Quds, Haj Ismail Haniyeh. Yesterday I raised his victorious hand and today I have to bury him on my shoulders.
Martyrdom is the art of men of God. The bond between the two proud nations of Iran and Palestine will be stronger than before, and the path of resistance and defense of the oppressed will be followed stronger than ever.
The Islamic Republic of Iran will defend its territorial integrity, honour, dignity and pride, and make the terrorist occupiers regret their cowardly action.”
President Masoud Pezeshkian, right, shakes hands with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh at the start of their meeting at the president’s office in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, July 30
China condemns Haniyeh’s assassination
Lin Jian, the spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, condemned the Hamas leader’s death and said Beijing is “deeply concerned that this incident may lead to further instability in the regional situation”.
Lin added that “Gaza should achieve a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire as soon as possible”.
China, which has historically been sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, hosted rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah in Beijing earlier this month. At that meeting, the two sides signed an agreement to form a “national unity government” in post-war Gaza.
