Russia warns of grave consequences if Israel invades Gaza
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Russia says the Israel military’s ground operation in Gaza will lead to the "most serious bloody consequences."
Russia says the Israel military’s ground operation in Gaza will lead to the “most serious bloody consequences.”
Deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has warned that the Israeli military’s ground operation in Gaza will lead to the “most serious bloody consequences.”
In a statement on Telegram, Medvedev noted on Friday that Israel keeps postponing its ground operation in Gaza “mostly under pressure from the United States and fearing global anger.”
“But do not be fooled. The operation will take place with the most serious bloody consequences. Moloch always demands more and more victims, and the machine of mutual violence will now work for years,” he emphasized.
Medvedev, who served as Russian president in 2008-2012, said the West “got tired of Ukraine” and switched to Israel.
“Even the new speaker of the US House of Representatives … the first thing he did – called helping Tel Aviv,” Medvedev said.
Medvedev also mentioned the implementation of the UN Security Council resolution 242 on lasting peace in the Middle East.
His remarks come after President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned that Israel’s conflict with Hamas could spread well beyond the Middle East.
Putin said it was wrong that innocent women, children, and old people in Gaza were being punished for other people’s crimes.
Putin, who made the comments in a Kremlin meeting with Russian religious leaders of different faiths, said bloodshed in the region had to stop. He said he told other world leaders in phone calls that if it did not, there was a risk of a much wider conflagration.
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“Our task today, our main task, is to stop the bloodshed and violence,” said Putin, according to a Kremlin transcript of the meeting.
“Otherwise, further escalation of the crisis is fraught with grave and extremely dangerous and destructive consequences. And not only for the Middle East region. It could spill over far beyond the borders of the Middle East.”
In remarks that criticized the West, he said that certain unnamed forces were seeking to provoke further escalation and to draw as many other countries and peoples into the conflict as possible.
The aim, he said, was to “launch a real wave of chaos and mutual hatred not only in the Middle East but also far beyond its borders. For this purpose, among other things, they are trying to play on the national and religious feelings of millions of people.”
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