{"id":154767,"date":"2025-06-26T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/middle-east-crisis-live-israeli-minister-calls-for-complete-halt-of-aid-to-gaza-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:17:03","slug":"middle-east-crisis-live-israeli-minister-calls-for-complete-halt-of-aid-to-gaza-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/middle-east-crisis-live-israeli-minister-calls-for-complete-halt-of-aid-to-gaza-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East crisis live: Israeli minister calls for \u2018complete halt\u2019 of aid to Gaza – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his first comments since the ceasefire, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US \u2018gained no achievement\u2019 when it joined the war with Israel against Tehran
Iran\u2019s supreme leader says his country \u201cdelivered a heavy slap to the US\u2019s face\u201d in his first public comments since the country\u2019s ceasefire with Israel<\/a> brokered by the US.<\/strong>
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/strong> said on Thursday that the US<\/strong> \u201cgained no achievement\u201d when it joined the war with Israel against Tehran,<\/strong> his account said in a post on X.
He said:
<\/path><\/svg>The US regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it didn\u2019t, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. It entered the war in an effort to save that regime but achieved nothing.<\/em>
The Islamic Republic delivered a heavy slap to the US\u2019s face. It attacked and inflicted damage on the Al-Udeid Air Base, which is one of the key US bases in the region.<\/em>
Tehran struck a US military base in Qatar on Monday.<\/strong> The attack was seen by the US as being an attempt to respond to the US\u2019s weekend bombing of Iran\u2019s nuclear sites without escalating the situation.
Donald Trump<\/strong> responded by calling the Iranian attack \u201cvery weak\u201d and claimed to have intercepted 13 of 14 missiles fired.
In a post on X after the attack, the Qatari foreign affairs ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari<\/strong> added that \u201cQatar\u2019s air defenses successfully thwarted the attack and intercepted the Iranian missiles\u201d and there had been no casualties.
The supreme leader says Iran<\/a> has access to \u201ckey\u201d US bases in the region and could take action \u201cwhenever it deems necessary\u201d.<\/strong>
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/strong> said the US would \u201cpay a heavy price\u201d if any aggression occurred.
He said in a post on X:
<\/path><\/svg>The fact that the Islamic Republic has access to key US centers in the region and can take action whenever it deems necessary is a significant matter.<\/em>
Such an action can be repeated in the future too. Should any aggression occur, the enemy will definitely pay a heavy price.<\/em>
Iran\u2019s supreme leader says his country \u201cdelivered a heavy slap to the US\u2019s face\u201d in his first public comments since the country\u2019s ceasefire with Israel<\/a> brokered by the US.<\/strong>
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/strong> said on Thursday that the US<\/strong> \u201cgained no achievement\u201d when it joined the war with Israel against Tehran,<\/strong> his account said in a post on X.
He said:
<\/path><\/svg>The US regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it didn\u2019t, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. It entered the war in an effort to save that regime but achieved nothing.<\/em>
The Islamic Republic delivered a heavy slap to the US\u2019s face. It attacked and inflicted damage on the Al-Udeid Air Base, which is one of the key US bases in the region.<\/em>
Tehran struck a US military base in Qatar on Monday.<\/strong> The attack was seen by the US as being an attempt to respond to the US\u2019s weekend bombing of Iran\u2019s nuclear sites without escalating the situation.
Donald Trump<\/strong> responded by calling the Iranian attack \u201cvery weak\u201d and claimed to have intercepted 13 of 14 missiles fired.
In a post on X after the attack, the Qatari foreign affairs ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari<\/strong> added that \u201cQatar\u2019s air defenses successfully thwarted the attack and intercepted the Iranian missiles\u201d and there had been no casualties.
The Guardian has published an article on Gaza City\u2019s<\/strong> main high street, Omar al-Mukhtar street, <\/strong>which has been largely destroyed by the Israel-Gaza war.<\/strong>
However, Palestinian memories of life before the ongoing Israeli assault survive.
As those in Gaza face bombing, starvation and miserable living conditions, individuals still try to hold both the past and the present in their minds.
You can read the full article here: A street in Gaza, a map of dreams, and the people desperate to live<\/a><\/strong>
An update has been issued on the number of deaths in Gaza on Thursday, with rescuers in the area saying Israeli forces killed 35 people in the territory, including four who they said were waiting to collect aid.<\/strong>
Mahmud Bassal,<\/strong> spokesperson for the Gaza Civil Defence agency, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that 35 people were killed by Israeli fire in various locations throughout the Gaza Strip.<\/strong>
They included \u201cfour who were waiting for humanitarian aid,\u201d he added.
The military did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment, saying it required further information.
Local health authorities said earlier on Thursday<\/a> that an Israeli airstrike killed at least nine people at a school housing displaced families in the Sheikh Radwan<\/strong> suburb in Gaza City,<\/strong> while another strike killed nine people near a tent encampment in Khan Younis<\/strong> in the south of the enclave.
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez<\/strong> on Thursday said Gaza<\/strong> was in a \u201ccatastrophic situation of genocide\u201d and urged the EU<\/strong> to immediately suspend its cooperation deal with Israel,<\/strong> Reuters reports.
Speaking to reporters before an EU summit in Brussels,<\/strong> Sanchez mentioned a recent human rights report by the bloc\u2019s diplomatic service which, he said, addressed \u201cthe catastrophic situation of genocide unfolding in Gaza\u201d.
Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/strong> has offered his congratulations on the \u201cvictory\u201d over Israel,<\/strong> his account said on X.
The account added that he will speak within the next few minutes in a video message, his first message since Washington<\/strong> announced a ceasefire between Iran<\/a> and Israel.
More details soon\u2026<\/em>
German foreign minister Johann Wadephul<\/strong> said there were \u201chopeful signs\u201d of US-Iran talks<\/strong> after president Donald Trump<\/strong> said they would take place next week, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
\u201cWe are directing all our diplomatic efforts towards finding a binding agreement as soon as possible,\u201d Wadephul said, during a joint news conference with his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand.<\/strong>
He added that the so-called E3 grouping of Britain, France and Germany<\/strong> would \u201cplay a central role\u201d in any talks and that \u201cIran expressly wants a European component\u201d.
The comments came after Wadephul called a vote by Iranian lawmakers<\/a> calling for a suspension of cooperation with the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog \u201ca totally wrong signal\u201d
According to Iranian state TV, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf<\/strong> said the International Atomic Energy Agency<\/strong> \u201crefused to even marginally condemn the attack on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities\u201d and had \u201cput its international credibility up for auction\u201d.
The decision of the Iranian parliament still requires the approval of Iran\u2019s Guardian Council, a body empowered to vet legislation.
Here are some of the latest photos of Gaza City<\/strong> coming through on the wires:
Germany<\/strong> on Thursday urged Iran<\/strong> to keep cooperating with the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog,<\/strong> calling a vote by Iranian lawmakers calling for a suspension of cooperation \u201ca totally wrong signal\u201d, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
Iran\u2019s parliament unanimously agreed to a bill on Wednesday<\/a> to suspend all cooperation with the IAEA,<\/strong> the UN\u2019s nuclear inspectorate, making it harder for an independent expert assessment to be made about the degree of damage inflicted on Iran\u2019s three key nuclear sites by the joint US and Israeli bombing.
Germany\u2019s foreign minister Johann Wadephul<\/strong> told a press conference that Germany \u201curges the Iranian government not to go down this path\u201d.
Members of Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s cabinet have praised Donald Trump\u2019s call to cancel the Israeli prime minister\u2019s corruption trial.<\/strong>
The US president said on Wednesday night he had \u201cjust learned that Bibi has been summoned to court on Monday\u201d and also suggested a pardon for the \u201cgreat hero\u201d.<\/a>
Miki Zohar,<\/strong> Israel\u2019s culture minister, called the trial \u201cabsurd\u201d and said Netanyahu would go down as \u201cone of the greatest leaders in history\u201d.
He said in a post on X:
<\/path><\/svg>President Trump is right \u2013 it is time to overturn the trial!<\/em>
The president of the world\u2019s greatest power, and a true friend of the Jewish people, Donald Trump, is voicing what many Israeli citizens feel in their hearts \u2013 particularly and especially in the midst of historic days in the country\u2019s history.<\/em>
Shlomo Karhi,<\/strong> the country\u2019s communications minister, shared Trump\u2019s post supporting Netanyahu and said he would like to see the Israeli prime minister \u201ccrush the political prosecution in court\u201d.
Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir<\/strong> said Trump was \u201cabsolutely right\u201d and said an \u201curgent reform\u201d was needed to the country\u2019s legal system<\/p>\n

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