Visiting US official says Israel now ‘stronger’ and Iran’s proxies ‘decimated’

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday that Israel had emerged “stronger” from more than 14 months of war triggered an unprecedented attack by Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas.

“We will make sure that Hamas can never threaten Israel in the way it did on October 7, ever,” Sullivan told a news conference at the US embassy in Jerusalem, referring to the date of the attack last year, adding that “the balance of power in the Middle East has changed significantly… Israel is stronger, Iran is weaker, its proxies decimated.”