2023-10-25 12:40:17
The alerts for a regional extension with other state actors in the war that Israel is waging against Hamas They lit up in the early hours of Wednesday when Israeli fighter planes bombed a military barracks and missile launchers in Syrian territory. It was in response to previous attacks with projectiles fired from the south of that country at the Golan Heights.
Syria is a close ally of Iranthe Persian power that in turn sponsors Hamas and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and proposes the destruction of Israel. An attack on any of these factors chains the others.
It is the concern of the United States, which fully supports Israel after the brutal terrorist attack on October 7 in the south of the country that killed more than 1,400 people, mostly unarmed civilians. But Washington has argued the inadvisability of a land invasion to the Gaza Strip controlled by Hamas because of its unpredictable outlook.
That territory is being subjected to increasing and devastating bombardment which has not ceased since the invasion of the fundamentalist militia. The restriction to move to a second infantry stage is due to the certain risk that Israel will be caught in an extensive fight and with high costs for its own personnel and Gaza civilians, the latter a political tool of the country’s enemies and also of the United States.
The White House is concerned about the orchestration of this conflict not only by Iran but also by Russia, diplomats here say.
International controversy
The costs of the bombings have already generated a intense international controversy. According to data from the Strip, there are already almost 6,000 dead in the two weeks of rain of bombs and artillery over that minimum territory of 40 kilometers long and 100 wide. Where, in addition, there is an extraordinary humanitarian hardship for the survivors, more than two million people, with acute shortages of basic supplies.
In Gaza there are more than 220 Israelis who were captured by the militants during their raid, who are part of a behind-the-scenes negotiation with Qatar and Egypt that the United States encourages. Four women have already been released and there are reports of another 50 people, with dual nationality, who could be returned.
Hierarchs of the Hamas group, cornered in this circumstance, thus seek a negotiation window that alleviates bombings But Israel refuses a ceasefire and rejects the “proportionality” claims made by its allies. They defend the reaction to the bloody incursion of the terrorist group that He killed children, burned houses with their families inside and raped women with methods similar to those of the terrorist organization ISIS, a now inactive Iranian organization that Hamas despises.
Israel must urgently make a decision on the invasion that, according to diplomatic sources, the Army has left in the hands of the weakened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. More than 300,000 reservists have been deployed in front of the territory of the Strip for days with armored vehicles and other ground warfare equipment with the decision to enter Gaza, but this measure is delayed in relation to its eventual ineffectiveness.
Keeping this enormous army stationed also implies a enormous economic cost for the country. The Standard & Poor’s agency, in this regard, has just modified its perspective on Israel from “stable to negative” and cited the risk that the war could spread more widely with a pronounced impact on the economy and the security situation in the country.
Missiles in the sky over Syria when Israel hit the airports of Damaco and Aleppo. Reuters
Last week, the Fitch agency moved Israel’s sovereign debt rating from “A+” to “negative watch rating,” and warned of a serious escalation of the ongoing conflict with Hamas. could lead to a negative rating.
Israeli fighters bombed in Syria mortar launchers and an important military base. It was a barrage of seven guided missiles against a target in the province of Daraa in the south of the country, which is where the Golan was fired upon. The Golan Heights are a territory that Israel seized from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and then consolidated in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and effectively annexed in 1981, in a movement not recognized by the community. international.
On Sunday, other previous Israeli attacks They left the two main Syrian airports, in Damascus and Aleppo, out of service. It was the second simultaneous bombing of these two infrastructures since the outbreak of the war with Hamas.
Attacks on US positions
During more than a decade of civil war in Syria, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes in the neighboring country against the positions of the Damascus army, pro-Iranian militias and the Hezbollah group. Israel has assured that will not allow its Iranian enemy, an ally of Damascus, to increase its presence in Syria.
This scenario is combined with an increase in attacks against North American positions in the region. There were a dozen rocket fires in Iraq and three missiles in Syria against positions of United States forces deployed in bases in those countries. There is a thirty American soldiers wounded in those episodes.
The increase of dozens or hundreds of civilian victims in the Gaza Strip, with episodes of attacks in areas where it had been reported that they would be freed from that danger, has produced a global crisis and a clash between Israel and the leadership of the United Nations, with requests for the resignation of the Secretary General, the Portuguese António Guterres.
Prime Minister of Israel and leader of the Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu EFE
There are important voices that criticize the character of collective punishment of the Israeli war offensive. This Wednesday, the UN Security Council called for an open debate on the tragedy in the Middle East with almost a hundred speakers, which indicates the centrality that this crisis has taken.
The conflict with Guterres specifically is because the influential diplomat has rejected the harshness of Israel’s air offensive and demanded an immediate ceasefire. Israel has stated that its intention is to destroy the Hamas group this timea purpose that accompanies the United States.
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