Tensions between Israel and Iran are escalating amid an already volatile Middle East, raising fears of a broader and more dangerous conflict.

A suspect appeared in federal court Friday for a hate crime charge after allegedly attacking a pro-Israel rally with Molotov cocktails in Boulder, Colorado.

"We wouldn't like to see some kind of nuclear race in the Middle East," Israeli diplomat Tsach Saar told Newsweek.

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke recently of “double standards” in international politics. Germany’s Friedrich Merz questioned Israel’s military goals in Gaza.

Israeli forces demolished the rear wall of the European Hospital and destroyed northern Gaza's only remaining dialysis centre. View on euronews

Matthew Miller, formerly the Biden administration's state department spokesperson, told Mark Stone in a Sky News interview that it is his personal belief that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza.

The chief executive of one of the world’s top consulting firms apologized to staff and admitted “process failures” in the company’s decision to help design and run a controversial Israel-backed group that supplanted the work of the United Nations to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip,