Iran warns of ‘preemptive’ action against Israel amid Gaza war | Gaza News

Tehran has warned {that a} floor offensive on the besieged Gaza Strip can be met with a response from different fronts.

Iran has warned of a doable “preemptive” motion in opposition to Israel “within the coming hours”, as Israel prepares for a floor offensive on the Gaza Strip.

The Iran-backed, Lebanese group Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging hearth throughout the Lebanese-Israeli frontier for days, additional elevating tensions as Israel bombards the Gaza Strip to the south following an unprecedented assault by the Palestinian armed group Hamas inside Israel final week.

“All doable choices and eventualities are there for Hezbollah … Naturally, resistance leaders won’t permit the Zionist regime to take any motion in Gaza, and when it feels reassured about Gaza, transfer on to different resistance areas within the area,” Iranian Overseas Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian mentioned in a stay broadcast to state TV late on Monday, as he referred to his assembly with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah the day past.

“Due to this fact, any preemptive measure is conceivable within the coming hours.”

Amirabdollahian additionally mentioned “the resistance leaders” won’t permit Israel “to do no matter it needs in Gaza”.

“If we don’t defend Gaza immediately, tomorrow we have now to defend in opposition to these [phosphorus] bombs within the youngsters’s hospital of our personal nation,” he added, referring to allegations by human rights teams that Israel has been utilizing phosphorus bombs in its aerial bombardment of Gaza. Israel has denied the allegation.

Reporting from southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr mentioned Amirabdollahian was seen “because the strongest but”.

“Hezbollah has been engaged with Israel alongside the border for greater than per week now. However that cross-border alternate of fireplace has been largely restricted in scope and confined to the border areas and army targets,” she mentioned, including, nonetheless, that tensions had been rising.

“Persons are worrying and bracing for the opportunity of this battle, which is now confined to the south of the nation, to unfold elsewhere.”

Talking to Al Jazeera on Sunday, Amirabdollahian had also warned Israel of regional escalation if its forces entered Gaza for a floor offensive.

“If the measures aimed toward instantly stopping the Israeli assaults which can be killing youngsters within the Gaza Strip finish in a impasse, it’s extremely possible that many different fronts will probably be opened. This feature is just not dominated out and that is changing into more and more extra possible,” Amir-Abdollahian mentioned.

Israel declared warfare on Hamas, the group operating the Gaza Strip, after waves of its fighters broke via Gaza’s closely militarised border with Israel on October 7 and killed greater than 1,400 folks, most of them civilians, in keeping with Israeli authorities.

Israel has responded by pummelling the Gaza Strip with continuous air and artillery assaults which have flattened neighbourhoods and killed at the least 2,750 folks in Gaza, largely civilians, in keeping with Palestinian officers.

Iran celebrated the Hamas assault however insisted it was not concerned.

Monday’s remarks come as Israel prepares for a floor invasion into the Gaza Strip, the place fears for Palestinians trapped within the closely bombarded enclave have grown since Israel launched its aerial marketing campaign.