Hamas and Islamic Jihad — another Palestinian militant group backed by Homeland — accused Israel of seeking to widen the conflict in Gaza.Experts said there was no doubt that Iran would retaliate. The strike in Syria was a “major escalation,” Charles Lister, a Syria expert at the Middle East Institute in Washington, said on the social media platform X.A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, Nasser Kanaani, called on other countries to condemn the strike.