▲ Drinking water is one of the scarcest goods in the Palestinian enclave. The image, in Gaza City.Photo Afp
AFP, Europa Press, Spitnik and Prensa Latina
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, October 4, 2024, p. 18
Washington. The president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced yesterday that he is arguing with Israel possible Israeli attacks against Iranian oil facilities, in retaliation for the hypersonic missiles fired at it by the Islamic Republic, and ruled out that an offensive is imminent.
When responding to the press whether he agreed with Israeli attacks on Iran’s oil infrastructure, Biden responded: We are discussing that. I think it would be a bit… anywaywithout finishing the sentence.
Before the south of the United States from Washington, he also spoke about the plans to authorize or not authorize Israel to retaliate against Iran, and the president asserted: “First of all, we do not ‘authorize’ Israel to do anything, we only advise it.” . And today (yesterday) nothing is going to happen,” he responded.
The president added that he does not believe that there will be a total war. I think we can avoid itand ruled out sending support troops to Israel.
The United States maintains communication with the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and France about a coordinated response to the Iranian offensive, was indicated in a statement from the State Department headed by Antony Blinken, who spoke yesterday with his counterparts of Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israelbesides of the importance of implementing United Nations Security Council resolution 1701 in order to establish a security perimeter in southern Lebanon, strengthen the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Finul) and create the conditions for both Israelis and Lebanese can return to their homesadded the document.
Meanwhile, the high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, expressed, during a forum in Spain, the firm demand from the community so that nuclear facilities are not attackedwhile warning that it is absolutely necessary to avoid total war.
Borrell warned that, with a hostile front with Lebanon and with the intervention of Iran, there is a risk of a regional extension of the war.
In turn, the Russian Vice Foreign Minister, Sergei Riabkov, pointed out that nuclear facilities must be kept out of any conflictand expressed that there is serious concern of Moscow regarding the current situation in the Middle East.
A plane from the Russian Emergencies Ministry arrived in Beirut with a humanitarian shipment of 33 tons, including food, basic necessities, medicines and mobile electrical substationsreported the Russian authority.
Yesterday, the United States, Spain, Russia, France, Greece and Brazil began the evacuation of their citizens in Lebanon, within the framework of operations against Israeli land incursions.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, reiterated his denunciation of the crimes committed by Israel in Lebanon, and demanded action from the international community to stop the aggression, while José Raúl Mulino, president of Panama, spoke out for a stable peace and lasting in the Middle East with the purpose of ending the war that the region is going through.
On a parallel topic, the Security Council of the United Nations Organization yesterday pronounced its full support for Secretary General Antonio Guterresafter Israel declared it persona non grataby not immediately condemning Iran’s attacks against Israel.