Fears are growing of the Gaza conflict widening to engulf Israel and its northern foe, the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah militia, after both sides claimed this week to be ready to go to war following an intensification of their cross-border attacks.
Israel’s military said it has approved plans for an attack in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah has threatened to carry out a war with “no red lines,” although it said it would halt attacks if the Gaza war stopped.
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.K., Prince Khalid Bin Bandar Al Saud, warned this week that failure to end the Gaza war and the broader Israel-Palestinian conflict would risk serious escalation not easily contained.
“At some stage we will hit a point where the conflict will spread, and it will become regional,” he said at London’s Chatham House.
“It’s very important for everyone to recognize the danger that lies ahead,” he said. “A regional conflict will not remain regional; it will become international very quickly. The reality is that if it continues along the path that it is going, [it] is much worse than what is happening on the ground today or any scenario from what will come from a deal.”
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