Hezbollah retaliation
The Hezbollah resistance movement continues retaliatory operations against Israel along Lebanon’s southern border, targeting the regime’s military sites and settlements.In one of its latest attacks, Hezbollah fighters destroyed three Israeli Merkava tanks with guided missiles, killing and injuring the regime’s troops. The group also targeted a gathering of Israeli forces at a radar site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with a rocket barrage. Hezbollah fighters fired a salvo of rockets at Israeli settlements of Safed and Kiryat Shmona, north of the occupied territories. Israel’s Zarit barracks was also hit with Hezbollah missiles. Other operations by Hezbollah fighters targeted gatherings of Israeli forces at various locations along Lebanon’s southern border, inflicting heavy losses on them. Hezbollah said its retaliatory operations were in support of the Palestinian resistance and also in defense of Lebanon and its people amid Israel's ongoing aggression against the country.
US-Israeli Gaza genocide
Israel’s unrelenting airstrikes and artillery fire continue across the Gaza Strip, killing more Palestinians across the blockaded territory. One of the latest attacks killed and injured nine civilians, including three children and a woman, east of the southern city of Khan Yunis. Fifteen people, mostly women and children, were injured in the Israeli shelling of a tent for the displaced people west of the city. In central Gaza, two civilians were killed in the Nusseirat refugee camp. In the north of Gaza, eight civilians were killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. Israel’s artillery fire targeted an aid distribution center in the Jabaliya camp, killing 10 Palestinians and injuring 40 others. The regime's shelling also killed another journalist to raise the number of journalists killed in Gaza since last October to 177. The Israeli genocide has killed nearly 42,290 Palestinians so far, leaving about 98,700 others wounded.
Slamming anti-Iran sanctions
Iran has strongly condemned new sanctions imposed by the European Union and the UK on a number of Iranian officials and entities. Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, described the sanctions as unjustified and against the norms of international law. Rejecting claims about Iran supplying ballistic missiles to Russia, he said Tehran is opposed to war and supports a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine war. Baghaei said accusations leveled against Iran by the EU and UK are aimed at distracting the public opinion from Israeli massacre of Palestinians and its warmongering measures in West Asia. He added that some European states, including the UK, are complicit in Israel’s crimes by supplying the regime with arms and ammunitions. He also highlighted Iran's right to military cooperation with other countries, including Russia, in line with the country’s national security and interests. Baghaei stressed that Iran's defense and military cooperation with other countries poses no threat to any third party.