Russia, China and Turkey merely urge restraint while some Islamic nations, and Iran in particular, blame Israel exclusively
, amid news there were many Americans among the victims. The secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said the administration was trying to verify reports of “several Americans” killed in the fighting and others who were missing. The Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog, said there were dozens of Americans among the hostages that Hamas militants had taken back into Gaza.
In the Egyptian city of Alexandria, two Israeli tourists and an Egyptian were reported to have been shot dead by a police officer who opened fire on an Israeli tour group visiting a religious site, according to the Cairo24 website, in an incident underlining the danger that the conflict could trigger violence beyond the Middle East.
Germany’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, told the Bild newspaper that federal and regional authorities were coordinating security measures and also closely watching “potential supporters of Hamas in the Islamist sphere”. The Arab and Islamic world was split in its reaction between those countries that declared general calls for restraint from both sides, and those who held Israel solely responsible because of the treatment of Palestinians and the indiscriminate nature of the retaliation on residential buildings in Gaza.
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