Iran warned of “severe consequences” as the deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas resumed on Friday after a seven-day truce expired.
Militants from the Iran-backed Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7 in which Israeli officials say about 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and around 240 were taken hostage.
Israel, whose main ally is the United States, vowed to destroy Hamas in response and unleashed an offensive that Gaza’s Hamas government says has killed more than 15,000 people in the Palestinian territory, also mostly civilians.
Fighting resumed on Friday after the expiry of the temporary truce that saw Hamas release 80 Israeli hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
“The continuation of the Washington and Tel Aviv war means a new genocide in Gaza and the West Bank,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Friday in post on X, formerly Twitter.
“It appears that they do not think about the severe consequences of returning to war,” he added.
Israel accused Hamas of breaking the pause by attempting to launch a rocket attack shortly before it was due to come to an end Friday at 0500 GMT.
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