Israel seeks to expand war beyond Gaza: Turkish foreign minister

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday said Israel’s expanding military actions, particularly the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, suggests it has a desire to take the Gaza conflict to the region, Anadolu reports. “There is a desire within Israel, including [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, to escalate the conflict across the region,” Fidan said in an exclusive interview with Turkiye’s public broadcaster TRT Haber in New York. He emphasized that “if Israel is not stopped in Gaza and Palestine, it will spread its war to surrounding regions,” noting that after reaching its military targets in Gaza, Israel is now moving to the front in Lebanon. Hezbollah and Israel continued cross-border warfare since the Gaza war last October, but Tel […]