Israel-Hamas war, Gaza genocide

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Iran’s president slams West over war on Gaza and support for Israel

Masoud Pezeshkian, who is in Iraq on his first foreign trip as Iranian president, has criticised Israel’s “massacres” in Gaza against “women, children, young men and elderly”.

“They bomb hospitals and schools,” he said in Baghdad. “All these crimes are being committed by using European and American ammunition and bombs,” he added, without elaborating.

Earlier, we reported that Pezeshkian met Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who said both governments are opposed to any widening of Israel’s war on Gaza.



Trump voices concern about Israel’s existence as Gaza war rages

No real shift in US policy over the war on Gaza can expected should either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris be elected as the next president, according to an analyst.

The closest Harris got to hinting at any change was “asserting the need for a two-state solution” and for Israel to observe principles of humanitarian rights law, said Sultan Barakat, a professor of public policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

He highlighted Tuesday’s attack on a school shelter that killed at least 14 Palestinians. “But you can see from today’s incident, [the Israelis] don’t really care, and they’re not listening to the United States,” Barakat told Al Jazeera.

“What really worries us is this debate and the discussion that took place really gives Netanyahu until the day of election to do whatever he likes. It is very clear that neither of the candidates is going to put any serious pressure on Israel to stop the massacre.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s preferred candidate is Trump, who voiced concerns about Israel being eradicated from the Middle East, the analyst said.

“What Trump said about the possibility of Israel ending within two years is really reflecting the level of fear the Israelis have. And in fact, Netanyahu has contributed greatly to this. He has stripped Israel of all the moral objectives for its existence.”