Iran has called for an arms embargo against Israel and its expulsion from the United Nations after a strike in Syria yesterday killed nine people, according to the Syrian Center for the Monitoring of Human Rights (SCNHRC), reported France Presse, quoted by BTA.
According to the Center, at least nine people, including a Hezbollah commander, were killed in an Israeli strike south of Damascus on an apartment belonging to members of the Lebanese movement, which is allied with Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghai "strongly condemned today's brutal attack by the Zionist regime against a residential building in Damascus". He called on the international community to take action against Israel, demanding an "arms embargo" and "its exclusion from the United Nations".
Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in the neighboring country, targeting the Syrian army and Tehran-backed groups, including Hezbollah, deployed in support of Syrian government forces. These strikes became more frequent after Israel launched an open war against the Lebanese "Hezbollah" on September 23.
Israel, which rarely comments on these strikes, recently struck the crossing points between Syria and Lebanon, accusing "Hezbollah" of using them to smuggle weapons from Syria, AFP recalls.
German Foreign Minister Analena Baerbock called on Israel to open all border crossings in the Gaza Strip to allow the delivery of aid to Gaza, warning that aid to the coastal Palestinian enclave is at a record low, DPA reported, quoted by BTA .
"Never in the last 12 months has so little aid flowed into the Gaza Strip as now," said the German foreign minister.
She added that Israel had repeatedly made promises in this regard, but then "failed to fulfill them". The Israeli government must allow more aid to the suffering civilian population in the Gaza Strip, "without excuses", she stressed.
"A large part of the more than 2 million (residents of the Gaza Strip) suffer from acute malnutrition and live in unimaginable conditions," Berbok added. Nowhere else in the world are there so many children with amputated limbs in such a small area.
"Large parts of Gaza are an absolute wasteland,", she emphasized.
The foreign minister added that with winter approaching, there is nothing more urgent than the release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian armed group "Hamas" and the delivery of urgently needed aid to the civilian population such as food, water, medicine , hygiene products and tents.
"For this to happen, all border crossings in Gaza must be opened for humanitarian aid."
Israel's right to defend itself is limited by international humanitarian law, and that includes ensuring humanitarian access at all times, Berbok said.
She called again for a ceasefire. "Because without a ceasefire, the death will not stop, the suffering will not end - the suffering of the more than 100 hostages and their families. And also the suffering of the families in Gaza", emphasized the German Foreign Minister.
Operative agents of the radical Palestinian group "Hamas" have tortured peaceful Palestinian citizens for years, it became clear after the Israeli army today released some of what it says are thousands of hours of footage from CCTV cameras discovered by military personnel in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli news agency TPS reported, quoted by BTA .
The 45-minute video released by the Israel Defense Forces shows shackled Palestinians with bags covering their heads. Prisoners are tied in various positions to a chain attached to the ceiling, being beaten and interrogated.
"Revealed video materials reveal the brutal methods of "Hamas" to interrogate civilians, violate human rights and systematically suppress residents suspected of opposing the organization's rule”, the Israel Defense Forces said.
"The videos intended for members of the security structures of "Hamas" document the activities of "Hamas" at Post 17 in the Gaza Strip, where civilians suspected of resisting "Hamas" are being brutally interrogated, the Israeli army says.
Dates on the footage show the scenes were filmed between 2018 and 2020, the Israel Defense Forces said.
At least 1,200 people were killed and 252 Israeli and foreign nationals were taken hostage in the attacks by "Hamas" against settlements in Israel near the border with Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Of the remaining 97 hostages in Gaza, more than 30 were reported dead. "Hamas" also holds captive two Israeli civilians kidnapped in 2014. and 2015, as well as the bodies of two soldiers killed in
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia - Fayad Al Ruwaili, discussed today "military diplomacy and the expansion of bilateral cooperation" in the capital of Iran - Tehran, with his Iranian colleague Mohammad Bagheri, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA, referring to the information about Al Ruwaili's visit to Iranian state media.
The world agency notes that the visit comes after the election for a second term as US president of Donald Trump, who promised to contribute to peace in the Middle East. During his first term in the White House, Trump helped normalize relations between Arab states and Iran's regional foe Israel, underpinned by the 2020 accords signed. "Abrahamic agreements", Reuters points out.
Iranian state media specify that Al Ruwaili led a delegation of senior Saudi military leaders to Tehran.
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran - Bagheri, had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia - Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud last year, in which regional development and military cooperation between the two countries were discussed, Reuters recalls .