Egypt, Jordan and Iraq say halting Gaza war key to stopping escalation in the region  

Egypt, Jordan and Iraq said Wednesday that stopping “Israeli aggression connected Gaza” is needed to halt unsafe escalation successful the region.

A associated connection pursuing a gathering of the overseas ministers from the 3 countries besides condemned Israel’s subject enactment successful Lebanon and said Israel is “pushing the portion into an all-out war.”

The ministers besides called connected the U.N. Security Council and the planetary assemblage to enactment to halt the war.

Israel has ramped up strikes targeting Hezbollah militants successful Lebanon, citing a request to alteration residents of bluish Israel to instrumentality to the homes they fled during a twelvemonth of Hezbollah rocket attacks.

Hezbollah launched its run against Israel the time aft the October 2023 Hamas onslaught connected Israel that killed astir 1,200 radical and led to the seizure of astir 250 hostages.

Israeli crushed attacks and airstrikes person killed astatine slightest 41,495 Palestinians and wounded much than 96,000, according to the wellness ministry successful Gaza. The ministry does not differentiate betwixt civilians and militants successful its count.

Crews connected Wednesday recovered the bodies of 4 radical killed successful Israeli strikes successful and adjacent a exile campy successful cardinal Gaza.

Three bodies were recovered astatine the tract of a onslaught that deed a conveyance adjacent the camp. The 4th assemblage was recovered successful the rubble of a location successful the campy wherever an airstrike killed a full of astatine slightest 11 people.

Hamas said successful a connection Tuesday that it is expecting the United Nations to instrumentality “immediate action” to extremity the warfare successful Gaza.

“We request contiguous enactment to halt the Israeli aggression and the war,” said the Hamas statement, which was directed astatine United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

But the Palestinian radical besides said it volition not enactment successful caller cease-fire talks. It said volition not waver from its presumption “against entering caller negotiations that would supply [Israel] with screen to proceed its aggression.”

Both Hezbollah and Hamas are Iranian-funded groups designated by the U.S. and different countries arsenic violent organizations that person vowed to destruct the Jewish authorities of Israel.

In remarks Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Gaza "a nonstop nightmare that threatens to instrumentality the full portion with it."

Guterres told the opening of the yearly United Nations General Assembly, "We should each beryllium alarmed by the escalation. Lebanon is astatine the brink. The radical of Lebanon, the radical of Israel and the radical of the satellite cannot spend Lebanon to go different Gaza."

Some accusation for this study was provided by Agence France-Presse and Reuters.