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Funeral for Gen. Nilforoushan

A funeral ceremony has been held in Tehran’s iconic Imam Hussein Square for Martyr Major General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut along with Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and several resistance commanders last month. People from all walks of life, including top government and military officials, attended the funeral ceremony. The body of General Nilforoushan arrived in Tehran following funerals in the Iraqi holy cities of Karbala and Najaf where a large crowd bid farewell to the slain general. The funeral prayer in Karbala was led by a representative of top cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. According to a statement from Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, Nilforoushan's body will be transferred to the city of Mashhad from Tehran. Ceremonies are also planned in Qom before his burial in Isfahan on Thursday.

Resistance 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-Israel Gaza genocide

It’s another deadly day for Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip where relentless Israeli attacks continue to pound areas across the blockaded territory. In one of the most tragic attacks, an entire family were killed in the Israeli bombing of their home near the southern city of Khan Yunis. Elsewhere in Gaza, near a dozen Palestinians lost their lives after the regime’s warplanes struck a home near the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Strip. Jabalia was also the scene of other deadly attacks with dozens of Palestinians falling victim to Israeli air and artillery strikes. Fatalities are also reported after Israeli helicopters bombed Palestinian agricultural land south of the al-Maghazi area in central Gaza. The Israeli aggression, which began in October last year, has so far claimed the lives of over 42,300 Palestinians and injured more than 99,000 others.

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