Uganda to Join Iran War on Israel’s Side, Military Chief Warns
His warning comes as regional tensions spike, following recent US and Israeli strikes on Iran and a series of retaliatory attacks that have widened the battlefield.
Uganda’s top military commander signaled Wednesday that Kampala could be pulled into a wider Middle East war — and would back Israel — even as he urged an immediate end to the fighting.
“We want the war in the Middle East to end now. The world is tired of it. But any talk of destroying or defeating Israel will bring us into the war — on the side of Israel,” Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the chief of defense forces and son of President Yoweri Museveni, wrote on the US social media company X.
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His warning comes as regional tensions spike, following recent US and Israeli strikes on Iran and a series of retaliatory attacks that have widened the battlefield.
Kainerugaba has also been in the spotlight for proposing a statue in honor of Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu — the brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who was killed while leading Israeli commandos during the 1976 Entebbe hostage rescue operation in Uganda, a raid that still resonates in both countries.
Since late February, the conflict has intensified, with reports of high casualties and continued exchanges of drone and missile strikes between Israel and Iran, along with spillover effects felt in neighboring states.