The United States likely wants to expand the crisis in Gaza outside the region, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an exclusive interview for RT channel.
"Well, I think people who float this kind of scenarios, they really want to provoke a bigger crisis. Maybe this is what the Americans want," Lavrov said.
In addition, the head of Russian diplomacy stressed the inevitability of the creation of a Palestinian state in a historical aspect.
"[..] You cannot buy security [...] by delaying and delaying the creation of the Palestinian state and by creepingly reducing the territory which was designed for the Palestinian state by the United Nations," he said.
According to him, it is the position that the Russian side is trying to convey to the Jewish state.
"[...] I don’t see any readiness, any appetite either in Iran or in any other Arab country for a big war in the region. The problem is that if this restraint is going to be considered as weakness and as a green light to do anything in Gaza, this would be a huge mistake," added the minister.
On October 7, the conflict situation deteriorated between Israel and Hamas, after Hamas fired over 4,000 rockets towards Israel. In response, Israeli forces carried out intense bombardments on the Gaza Strip.
Since then, the Israel Defense Forces have continued its strikes against civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and refugee camps in the enclave. So far, Israeli bombings have killed more than 11,320 people, mostly civilians, including at least 4,650 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
On the Israeli side, around 1,200 people were massacred in the Hamas attack, the vast majority of them civilians, according to the Israeli authorities. And some 240 hostages were kidnapped and brought back to Gaza, according to the army.