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Israel blocking Gaza ceasefire

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Israel is obstructing a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Senior Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, said Israel wants to continue its onslaught on Gaza and keep the territory under siege. He reiterated the movement’s demands for a ceasefire. Hamdan said it should be comprehensive and involve the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the strip as well as the removal of the blockade on it. Hamas is currently reviewing a framework of a ceasefire deal that was offered to it after talks in Paris involving Israeli, American, Egyptian and Qatari representatives. Israel is under pressure from the international community and even its own Western allies to stop the military offensive on Gaza, which has resulted in large-scale death and destruction.

Iraqi resistance operations

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says it has carried out fresh attacks against Israeli positions in response to the regime’s genocide in Gaza. The resistance group said it carried out a drone attack against a target in the port city of Umm al-Rashrash, also known as Eilat, in southern part of the Occupied Palestine. This is not the first time Iraq-based resistance groups have hit Eilat after Israel started its onslaught on Gaza on October 7. They have also carried out a number of attacks against US bases in the region. They say Washington is behind the Israeli regime's onslaught on Gaza and is to blame for more than 100,000 civilian casualties so far.

Condemning US aggression

Iran's ambassador to the United Nations has strongly condemned US strikes on Iraq and Syria as well as its attacks on Yemen. Amir Saeid Iravani made the comment while addressing a UN Security Council meeting on threat to international peace and security. He said such illegal measures target civilians and vital infrastructure and pose a great threat to peace and security of the region. He also rejected US claims that resistance forces in the region act on behalf of Iran. The envoy noted that Iran's military advisors are present in Syria on the official request of the country’s government. Iravani added that the only way to stop conflicts in the region is to abide by international law. He said this means forcing Israel to end its genocide in Gaza and occupation of Palestinian territories as well as terminating the US military presence in Iraq and Syria.