Indonesia condemns Israeli attacks on Iran and calls for restraint from all parties – Middle East and Africa

“Indonesia strongly condemns Israel’s military attacks against Iran. “Such escalation and expansion of conflicts are clear violations of international law and demonstrate Israel’s complete disregard for it,” the Foreign Ministry said in X on Saturday.

“All parties should exercise maximum restraint and refrain from any actions that could increase tensions and lead to further instability in the region,” the ministry said.

Dozens of Israeli aircraft completed three waves of strikes before dawn on Saturday against missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran, Israel’s military said, Reuters reported.

The attacks were in retaliation for Iran’s attack on Israel on October 1, in which Iran fired about 200 missiles in only the second direct attack against its archenemy. Most of those missiles were intercepted but one person was killed, according to AFP.

Tensions have risen in the Middle East since the Gaza war began in October last year, and the United Nations Security Council has struggled to act.

Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry said that Israel’s “illegal occupation of Palestinian territory remains the root cause of conflicts in the Middle East” and that the two-state solution was “the only way to bring peace to the region”.