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Summary
of the day so far
It has
been an eventful few hours in the Middle East, with both sides of the
Iran-Israel conflict accusing the other of breaching the ceasefire agreement
brokered by the US.
Below is
a summary of the latest events that have unfolded:
US
president Donald Trump said on Tuesday that both Israel and Iran violated a
ceasefire he announced hours earlier and he was not happy with either country
but especially Israel. Speaking to reporters before leaving for the Nato summit
in The Hague, Trump said Israel “unloaded” right after agreeing to the deal.
Israeli
defence minister Israel Katz said he has ordered the country’s military to
respond forcefully to what he said was Iran’s violation of a ceasefire with
Israel. The directive followed an announcement by the military that it had
detected missile launches from Iran towards Israel 2.5 hours after the start of
the ceasefire brokered by US president Donald Trump, which he said came into
effect in a post on Truth Social at 06:08 GMT.
Katz’s
comments came after the Israeli government confirmed reports that it agreed to
a ceasefire proposal brokered by the US, after almost two weeks of direct
military conflict with Iran. The statement noted Israel achieved all of the
operation’s objectives, removing “dual immediate existential threat from itself
– both in the nuclear and ballistic missile fields”.
Iran
denied it launched missiles at Israel in the “last few hours”, after Israel
accused it of doing so after US president Donald Trump’s announcement of a
ceasefire. The general staff of the Iranian army “denied the launch of missiles
from Iran to the occupied territories (Israel) in the last few hours”.
Iran also
accused Israel of breaching the ceasefire. The spokesperson of Iran’s Khatam
al-Anbiya central military headquarters said Israel struck Iran in three stages
up until 9am local time (05:30 GMT) on Tuesday. Iranian state TV earlier said a
ceasefire would take place in Iran from 7:30am local time on Tuesday, with the
country’s armed forces accusing Israel of launching strikes after this time.
The
number of people killed by Israeli fire while waiting for aid trucks in central
Gaza has risen to 25, according to Palestinian witnesses and hospitals. The
military said it was reviewing reports of casualties from Israeli fire after a
group of people approached troops in an area adjunct to the east-west Netzarim
corridor, which bisects Gaza.
The UN
human rights office said on Tuesday that the “weaponisation” of food for
civilians in Gaza constitutes a war crime, in its strongest remarks yet on a
new model of aid distribution run by an Israeli-backed organisation. Thameen
Al-Kheetan told reporters at a Geneva press briefing that “desperate, hungry
people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being
killed while trying to get food”.
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