TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday Israel’s attack on a major gas facility on the shore of the Gulf sought “to expand the war beyond” Iran.
“Dragging the conflict into the Arabian Gulf region is a major strategic mistake, likely deliberate and intended to extend the war beyond Iranian territory,” Araghchi told foreign diplomats, referring to the attack on the South Pars refinery, adding that that attack was “an extremely dangerous move.”
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Iran says Israel attack on Gulf gas facility attempt ‘to expand war’
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Iran says Israel attack on Gulf gas facility attempt ‘to expand war’
Israel says forces open fire on West Bank stone-throwers, one dead
The Israeli military said its forces killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank in the early hours on Thursday as they opened fire on people who were throwing stones at soldiers. Two other people were hit on a main road near the village of Luban al-Sharqiya in Nablus, the military statement added. It described the people as militants and said the stone-throwing was part of an ambush.
Palestinian authorities in the West Bank said a 26-year-old man they named as Khattab Al Sarhan was killed and another person wounded.
Israeli forces had closed the main entrance to the village of Luban Al-Sharqiya, in Nablus, and blocked several secondary roads on Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA reported.
More than a thousand Palestinians were killed in the West Bank between October 2023 and October 2025, mostly in operations by security forces and some by settler violence, the UN has said.
Over the same period, 57 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks.
Palestinian authorities in the West Bank said a 26-year-old man they named as Khattab Al Sarhan was killed and another person wounded.
Israeli forces had closed the main entrance to the village of Luban Al-Sharqiya, in Nablus, and blocked several secondary roads on Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA reported.
More than a thousand Palestinians were killed in the West Bank between October 2023 and October 2025, mostly in operations by security forces and some by settler violence, the UN has said.
Over the same period, 57 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks.
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