Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke with a senior Hamas official on Wednesday and assured him that Iran is addressing Israel’s actions in Gaza in talks with the US, as Israel continues constant ceasefire violations in the Palestinian territory.
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding calls for a ceasefire on “all fronts,” though the only other war mentioned explicitly besides the conflict between the US and Iran is Lebanon.
According to Iran’s PressTV, Araghchi told Hamas official Bassem Naim that Iran’s negotiators will continue “to raise the issue of the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza, the repeated violations committed by the aggressor regime, and the continuing genocide despite the ceasefire agreement, in all international forums as well as in discussions with mediators and the American side during the ongoing negotiations.”
There’s no sign at this point that the US wants Israel to de-escalate in Gaza, and the Trump administration has remained quiet about Israel’s daily violations of the Trump-backed agreement. Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire deal was signed in October 2025.
There are indications that Israel is looking to escalate further in Gaza if it’s forced to de-escalate in Lebanon as part of the US-Iran MoU.
Haaretz reported on Tuesday that Israeli officials met to discuss a potential ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza, and the newspaper said that an Israeli military source wouldn’t rule out that the revival of the plan was “connected to quiet agreements reached recently between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, constituting ‘compensation for painful concessions’ that Washington imposed on Israel as part of its deal with Iran.”
