The foreign ministers of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan on Wednesday condemned Israel’s “aggression” against Lebanon’s Hezbollah, arguing that Israel Defense Forces operations in Lebanon were “pushing the region towards all-out war,” Agence France-Presse reported.
Curbing the “dangerous escalation under way in the region … begins by halting Israel’s aggression in Gaza,” the officials said in a joint statement issued after a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Earlier Wednesday, the IDF intercepted a Hezbollah surface-to-surface ballistic missile headed toward central Israel. The Iranian proxy claimed that the target of the attack was the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
Shortly after, the Israeli Air Force struck the launcher from which the missile was fired in the area of Nafakhiyeh, located some 12 miles to the east of Tyre in Lebanon.
