AFP, Reuters
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, p. 28
Washington. The US president, Joe Biden, said yesterday that he debated actively with Israel the response to the bombings launched by Iran, and ordered its army help Israel defend itself and shoot down the missiles directed against its ally, as it did in the Iranian offensive in April, while demands from the international community for a ceasefire and to avoid further escalation in the Middle East multiplied.
In turn, the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated: What I deeply regret is the behavior of the Israeli government; Honestly, it is inexplicable that the United Nations Security Council does not have the moral and political authority to make Israel sit at a table to talk, instead of just knowing how to kill..
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, spoke out against the use of force against Telv Aviv.
“If the Security Council does not show the necessary will, the power of the UN General Assembly to recommend the use of force – as in the Union for Peace resolution of 1950 – must be activated quickly,” said the president. whose country belongs to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Biden insisted that The United States fully supports Israeland described the Iranian attack as ineffective.
It is a significant escalation, admitted National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, while White House spokesman Pat Ryder assured that the Islamic republic launched about twice as many missiles that when it fired more than 300 drones and ballistic missiles against Israel, on April 13, in retaliation for the attack on its consulate in Syria days before, which left 16 dead.
The spokesman for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, described the Iranian offensive as shameless and unacceptable and asked that all the nations of the world join the condemnation. He stated that the bombing must have consequences for Iran.
The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, condemned the expansion of the conflict in the Middle Eastwith one climb after anotherafter Iran launched a barrage of missiles against Israel. This must stop. We need a ceasefirehe added.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry urged Israel to withdraw its troops from Lebanon and to cease hostilities, highlighting that the situation shows the total failure of United States politics.
The European Union condemnation in the strongest terms the Iranian attack, declared the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, a position joined by Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Canada, Egypt, Peru, Chile and Argentina, while the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, confirmed the mobilization of military resources to the Middle East to counter the threat from Iran.
Israel’s neighbors closed airspace and airline crews prevented the conflict from escalating; flights were diverted where they couldand a snapshot of traffic in the region showed flights extending in wide arcs to the north and south, with many converging on Cairo and Istanbul.