Israel-Hamas Conflict Report From The US: Talks With Iran, Water Supply In Gaza
According to Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser for the White House, the US has recently spoken with Iran in private to caution it against intensifying its hostilities with Israel. This occurs as Israeli soldiers get ready for an anticipated ground offensive in response to Hamas’s unexpected strike from the previous weekend.
Jake Sullivan said that “we have means of communicating privately with Iran, and we have availed ourselves of those means over the past few days to make clear privately what we have said publicly.”
After the US announced that it was sending the USS Eisenhower carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean as tensions in the region rise, he said that the US couldn’t rule out that Iran might intervene in the conflict and that it was keeping an eye on both the possibility of direct involvement by Tehran and the possibility of proxy activity by Hezbollah across the border with Lebanon.
Although Iran warned that if Israel’s “war crimes and genocide are not immediately halted, the situation could spiral out of control,” Jake Sullivan claimed that the US did not have specific new intelligence suggesting a greater risk of escalation.”
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The US national security adviser also disclosed that he had been informed by Israeli officials that the water pipes in southern Gaza had been restarted.
“I have been in touch with my Israeli counterparts just within the last hour who reported to me that they have, in fact, turned the water pipe back on in southern Gaza,” he stated. Since the start of the conflict last Saturday, Israel has cut off the water supply to Gaza as part of its siege.
