United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Thursday that the Middle East region is heading for “more conflict” and urged all parties to halt “escalatory actions” after Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an alleged Israeli attack in Tehran.
“Right now, the path that the region is on is toward more conflict, more violence, more suffering, more insecurity.
And it is crucial that we break the cycle. And that starts with a ceasefire,” Blinken told reporters in Mongolia. The secretary further said that a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas would bring the Gaza war to an end, but it would also “produce calm in the north, between Israel and Lebanon.” “It is urgent that all parties make the right choices in the days ahead,” he concluded.