The UN Security Council will meet on Friday, June 20, to hold two sessions: one on the escalation between Iran and Israel and one on the situation in Ukraine.
“The session on Iran's request will be held on Friday morning at 10:00 (17:00 Bulgarian time), and the session on Ukraine will be held at 15:00 (22:00 Bulgarian time)“, the Permanent Mission of Guyana to the United Nations, which holds the presidency of the UN Security Council in June, told reporters.
The last time the Security Council met in an emergency session on the situation in the Middle East was on June 13, the day Israel launched Operation "Rising Lion" against Iran's nuclear program. Iran.
The Israeli army has called for an evacuation in the area of the heavy water reactor in the Iranian city of Arak.
The warning was posted in Persian on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) social media channel "Ex" , BTA reported.
The heavy water reactor in Arak is located 250 km southwest of Tehran.
Heavy water helps cool nuclear reactors, but it produces plutonium as a byproduct that can be used for nuclear weapons, the Associated Press notes.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that his country remains committed to diplomacy, but will continue to act in self-defense against Israel, BTA reported.
"Iran acts only in self-defense. Even with the most outrageous aggression against our people, Iran has so far responded only to the Israeli regime, but not to those who support and incite it," Araghchi wrote on the social network "Ex". "Unlike the illegitimate, genocidal and occupying Israeli regime, we remain committed to diplomacy," he added.
Earlier, DPA and Reuters reported, citing diplomatic sources, that Araghchi could meet in Geneva on Friday with the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful said a few days ago that Berlin, Paris and London are ready for direct talks with Tehran over Iran's nuclear program.
The Iranian missile that hit the town of Bat Yam south of Tel Aviv on Sunday killed a seven-year-old girl from Ukraine. The child was in Israel for medical treatment along with other family members, the newspaper "Yediot Ahronot" reported, quoted by DPA and BTA.
The girl, named Nastya, who suffered from leukemia, arrived in Israel from Odessa for a period of two and a half years.
Her grandmother and two of her cousins were also killed in the strike, "Yediot Ahronot" added. Rescue teams are searching the rubble in search of her mother Maria. She is also believed to have died. The father remained in Ukraine, where he fought on the front lines in the ranks of the Kiev army.
In a post on social media, former Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog wrote that Israel mourns with Nastya's father. "She came here looking for life. Instead, she was killed – together with his mother Maria, his little cousins Konstantin and Ilya and his grandmother Lena from an Iranian missile that hit an apartment building in Bat Yam", he pointed out and called on the world to condemn Iran and "to fight together with Israel against Tehran's evil empire".
Israel and Iran continued to exchange attacks on Wednesday.
According to official figures, at least 24 people have been killed and 800 injured in Israel since the beginning of the conflict.
American human rights organization "Human Rights News Agency" (Human Rights News Agency) reported on Tuesday that 585 people were killed and more than 1,300 injured in Israeli strikes in Iran.
An Israeli couple got married in a bomb shelter in Hadera, a coastal city south of Tel Aviv, the Israel Ayom newspaper reported. The newspaper noted that the newlyweds were named Omer, 29, and Shir, 30. The couple had decided to postpone the ceremony by a month, Shir told Channel 12 television. But after consulting with the rabbi who was to perform the marriage, they decided not to, and the Hadera authorities suggested the bomb shelter as a venue for the wedding ceremony. The wedding went ahead without interruption due to air raid warnings.
Due to wartime restrictions imposed in Israel, gatherings of people outdoors are prohibited.