TEHRAN (Iran News) UN Secretary‑General spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the Israeli regime’s recent decisions are intended to facilitate the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank and undermine stability in the territory. Speaking to Al Jazeera early Wednesday, Dujarric said such measures run counter to international legal obligations.

He added that statements by Israeli ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet openly call for the destruction of the “two‑state solution.”

There is no alternative to the “two‑state solution,” Dujarric said, stressing that UN Secretary‑General Antonio Guterres will continue pressing UN member states to take political steps to make that solution viable.

The Israeli regime’s cabinet has recently approved a decision allowing, for the first time since 1967, the seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank by registering it as “state property.”

The move has triggered widespread international criticism and raised concerns about escalating tensions in the occupied territories.

Guterres has previously condemned the decision, warning that it would lead to the dispossession of Palestinians and the expansion of Israeli control over occupied land. “Israel ”

Finland also denounced the decision by the Israeli regime. Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said the regime’s decision to register West Bank land violates international law and further distances prospects for a “two‑state solution,” which Finland has long supported.

The decision has intensified diplomatic pressure on the Israeli regime amid growing global concern over the future of Palestinian statehood.

He added that statements by Israeli ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet openly call for the destruction of the “two‑state solution.”

There is no alternative to the “two‑state solution,” Dujarric said, stressing that UN Secretary‑General Antonio Guterres will continue pressing UN member states to take political steps to make that solution viable.

The Israeli regime’s cabinet has recently approved a decision allowing, for the first time since 1967, the seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank by registering it as “state property.”

The move has triggered widespread international criticism and raised concerns about escalating tensions in the occupied territories.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) According to reports by several media outlets, including the Alikhbariah news website, a convoy of Israeli troops consisting of 12 armored vehicles crossed into and raided the village of Saida Al-Hanout on Monday.

They reportedly inspected a number of residential houses in the area and tried to offer food to the people, but the villagers refused to accept anything from the Israeli forces.

Earlier, the Syrian news agency, SANA cited local sources as saying that Israelis also opened direct fire on agricultural lands, west of the town of Al-Rafid in the southern countryside of Quneitra.

For months, Israeli forces have conducted near-daily incursions into southern Syria, particularly in Quneitra, carrying out arrests, erecting checkpoints, and bulldozing land, all of which have prompted growing public anger and unrest, posing a serious obstacle to the process of returning stability to the country.

Syria has repeatedly demanded the withdrawal of occupation forces from its territory, calling on the international community to assume its responsibilities, and compel Israel to return to the 1974 Disengagement Agreement, which the regime dismissed after the fall of the government of Bashar al-Assad.

They reportedly inspected a number of residential houses in the area and tried to offer food to the people, but the villagers refused to accept anything from the Israeli forces.

Earlier, the Syrian news agency, SANA cited local sources as saying that Israelis also opened direct fire on agricultural lands, west of the town of Al-Rafid in the southern countryside of Quneitra.

For months, Israeli forces have conducted near-daily incursions into southern Syria, particularly in Quneitra, carrying out arrests, erecting checkpoints, and bulldozing land, all of which have prompted growing public anger and unrest, posing a serious obstacle to the process of returning stability to the country.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) Major General Ali Abdollahi made the remarks in a meeting with the family of Martyr Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the former IRGC Aerospace Force Commander and also family of the former senior commander of Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters Martyr Ali Babakhani on Tuesday.

Commemorating the name and memory of martyrs during the eight years of Sacred Defense (Iraqi imposed war against Iran in 1980-1988), especially martyrs during 12-day war, he hailed the constructive and leading role of Martyr Hajizadeh in enhancing missile power of the country and his key role during 12-day Israeli imposed war against Iran is solid evidence of the issue.

Major General Abdollahi then referred to the defeat of Zionist enemy during 12-day war, stating that Zionist regime suffered very heavy and crushing blows during 12-day war but Israeli regime censors its death toll and blows it suffered att he hands of Iran.

These heavy blows caused the Israeli regime to unilaterally request a ceasefire, he said, adding that powerful Islamic Republic of Iran has never sought conflict or military confrontation.

On June 13, 2025, Israel launched a blatant and unprovoked aggression against Iran while Washington and Tehran were in a process of nuclear negotiations. The Israeli attack triggered a 12-day war that killed at least 1,064 people in the country, including military commanders, nuclear scientists, and ordinary civilians.

The United States also entered the war by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of international law.

In response, the Iranian Armed Forces targeted strategic sites across the occupied territories as well as the Al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.

On June 24, Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations against both the Israeli regime and the US, managed to impose a halt to the aggression.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) In a statement on Tuesday, the ICJ—the highest judicial body of the United Nations based in The Hague—announced that Belgium had filed a declaration of intervention in the case, according to Al Jazeera.

Several other countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, and Turkey, have already joined the proceedings since South Africa brought the case in December 2023.

South Africa argues that Israel’s war on Gaza violates the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

In January 2024, the ICJ issued provisional measures ordering Israel to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza and to allow unimpeded access for humanitarian aid. Despite growing international criticism, Israel has continued its military assaults on the territory and restricted the flow of aid.

The regime has also maintained its actions despite a ceasefire that began on October 10 this year. According to Gaza health officials, more than 400 people have been killed since the ceasefire took effect. Overall, the war has left at least 70,942 Palestinians dead and 171,195 wounded since it began on October 7, 2023.

Several other countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, and Turkey, have already joined the proceedings since South Africa brought the case in December 2023.

South Africa argues that Israel’s war on Gaza violates the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

In January 2024, the ICJ issued provisional measures ordering Israel to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza and to allow unimpeded access for humanitarian aid. Despite growing international criticism, Israel has continued its military assaults on the territory and restricted the flow of aid.

The regime has also maintained its actions despite a ceasefire that began on October 10 this year. According to Gaza health officials, more than 400 people have been killed since the ceasefire took effect. Overall, the war has left at least 70,942 Palestinians dead and 171,195 wounded since it began on October 7, 2023.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) The name of this region is Birobidzhan, and it is located in southeastern Russia as the first Jewish republic. Most people around the world are unaware of its existence, which, according to the author, is because the Zionist regime has sought to conceal this reality and has, in various ways, prevented media presence and coverage there.

This republic was the first Jewish country in the world. Before migration to Palestine, and prior to the rise of Zionism and the ideology of settling Jews in Palestine, Jews migrated to this republic. Jews were able to establish the first Jewish republic without seizing land from indigenous populations—a country whose entire population was Jewish.

What Israel and its Western supporters fear, the author argues, is the growth and promotion of the idea of Jews returning to this republic as their first homeland, and the possibility that the world might be persuaded of the feasibility of the safe return of Jews currently living in Palestine to the Republic of Birobidzhan, where they could live in peace and tranquility.

In that republic, Jewish culture prevails, and everyone speaks Yiddish, the European Jewish language. According to the author, Jews can live there without the presence of what he describes as anti-Jewish ideologies that are currently promoted by global Zionism.

Dr. Saleh Ali Al-Suhayqi authored a book—translated by Ali Rashidi—in which he traces the 2,000-year history of Jewish life. In the book, he writes that the area of the Jewish Autonomous Republic of Birobidzhan within the Russian Federation is approximately 41,277 square kilometers, roughly the size of a European country such as Switzerland, with a very low population density of 14 people per square mile. By contrast, population density in the Zionist regime is currently 945 people per square mile.

According to the author, this republic has the capacity to accommodate all Jews worldwide, including those who have occupied Palestinian land. Should this occur, he argues, it would be possible to put an end to the catastrophe of Palestinian Arab displacement across the world and facilitate their return to Palestine.

The author maintains that this idea contradicts the objectives of global Zionism and Western countries that benefit from the presence of the State of Israel in the Arab world and West Asia. He claims that Israel’s existence and survival in the region are tied to Western interests, arguing that Israel supports those interests by engaging in proxy wars against parties that threaten Western objectives—chief among them, in his view, Arab actors.

What Arabs, according to the author, do not know is that this Jewish republic was established in 1928 with the support and encouragement of American Jews, including a delegation that reportedly included Albert Einstein, the Jewish physicist, and Goldberg, the well-known American writer.

In this way, the author asserts, global Zionism deceived the world. At the start of World War II, Zionist leaders claimed they urgently needed Palestinian land as a national homeland because Jews were scattered and lacked a national refuge. This claim was then used, he argues, as a pretext to displace Palestinians and seize their land.

During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this republic—like Chechnya—had the legal capacity to declare independence from the Russian Federation. However, the author claims that Zionism prevented such a declaration due to the sensitivity surrounding the emergence of a Jewish republic outside Palestine and the risk that awareness of this state among Jews worldwide would increase, potentially redirecting Jewish migration there instead of to Palestine. He adds that it is striking that Western governments, which encouraged Arabs and Muslims to wage jihad for Chechnya’s independence from Russia, could have done the same to support Birobidzhan’s independence and establish it as a Jewish state instead of Palestine.

The author notes that, despite this reality, Arabs rarely speak about it, and Arab citizens remain largely unaware of the issue—even though, in the 1980s, a delegation from Kuwait’s Al-Arabi magazine conducted a comprehensive visit to the republic to examine conditions there.

He argues that this fact could be promoted today: that there exists a land to which Jews living in Palestine could return, enabling Palestinians to return to their own homeland.

“Why does this media censorship exist?” the author asks. “Why have Arabs and Muslims remained silent about this truth?”

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TEHRAN (Iran News) In an interview during a recent visit to Brussels, Natalie Boucly, an UNRWA deputy commissioner general, said the whole world, including the EU and US, needed to increase the pressure on Israel’s government to ensure the unrestricted flow of aid into Gaza.

UNRWA has enough food, tents and other essentials to fill the equivalent of up to 6,000 trucks, Boucly said.

“As winter approaches and famine continues to grip the population, it is critical that all this aid is allowed into Gaza without delay,” she said. “Our supplies would be able to provide food … for the entire population for about three months. And that is sitting outside [in Jordan and Egypt], not able to come in. And that is the case for the other UN agencies because the restrictions and the constraints are still there.”

She estimated that only about half, “if that”, of the 500-600 daily truckloads needed were getting into the devastated territory.

Boucly said Israel as an occupying power was “not abiding by international humanitarian law and international human rights law”, referencing the fourth Geneva convention as well as a recent advisory opinion from the international court of justice that said Israel had to ensure the people of the occupied Palestinian territory had “the essential supplies of daily life”.

The same ICJ ruling, issued on 22 October, concluded that Israel had an obligation to cooperate with UNRWA. The court found no evidence that Unrwa lacked neutrality or that significant numbers of it staff were members of Hamas, claims repeatedly made by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

Israel severed diplomatic relations with UNRWA after accusing the body of having been infiltrated by Hamas and allowing “widespread and systematic” misuse of its facilities by terrorists. The ICJ opinion noted that nine Unrwa employees were dismissed over possible involvement in the 7 October 2023 attacks but said Israel’s broader claims were not substantiated.

Boucly said she had received no indication that Israel was going to change its no-contact policy towards her agency.

UNRWA was created in 1948 to aid the 700,000 Palestinian refugees displaced in the war around the establishment of the state of Israel. It was meant to be temporary. Nearly eight decades later, UNRWA is a vital supplier of health, education, social welfare and other services in the occupied Palestine territories and neighbouring countries, where 5.9 million Palestine refugees are registered.

“It is not the time for UNRWA to collapse,” Boucly said. “We are irreplaceable because nobody can pick up the slack.”

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TEHRAN (Iran News) The office said in a statement on Tuesday that the Israeli “systematic and clear violations” of the truce included attacks that killed 94 people and wounded more than 344 others.

According to the statement, Israeli forces conducted 52 direct shootings at civilians and nine incursions into residential areas beyond what is known as the “yellow line.” It also said there were 55 airstrikes or aerial targeting operations, 11 demolitions of civilian buildings, and 21 arrests across the Gaza Strip.

“We strongly condemn these repeated hostile actions and hold the occupying forces fully responsible for the humanitarian and security consequences,” the media office said, adding that continued breaches posed a threat to the survival of the ceasefire.

According to the statement, Israeli forces conducted 52 direct shootings at civilians and nine incursions into residential areas beyond what is known as the “yellow line.” It also said there were 55 airstrikes or aerial targeting operations, 11 demolitions of civilian buildings, and 21 arrests across the Gaza Strip.

“We strongly condemn these repeated hostile actions and hold the occupying forces fully responsible for the humanitarian and security consequences,” the media office said, adding that continued breaches posed a threat to the survival of the ceasefire.

According to the statement, Israeli forces conducted 52 direct shootings at civilians and nine incursions into residential areas beyond what is known as the “yellow line.” It also said there were 55 airstrikes or aerial targeting operations, 11 demolitions of civilian buildings, and 21 arrests across the Gaza Strip.

“We strongly condemn these repeated hostile actions and hold the occupying forces fully responsible for the humanitarian and security consequences,” the media office said, adding that continued breaches posed a threat to the survival of the ceasefire.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) Rami Abdeh, head of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Watch, has said that the Israeli regime is refusing to retrieve the bodies of its deceased soldiers, intending to use this as a pretext to continue its oppression of the Palestinian people.

Abdeh expressed confidence that the regime does not want to recover the bodies, instead seeking to exploit this situation to justify further violence against Palestinians.

He also highlighted that one indication of this is Israel’s refusal to allow specialized teams and equipment into Gaza to recover bodies trapped under rubble.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas announced that retrieving the bodies of Israeli soldiers could be time-consuming, as some are buried in tunnels destroyed by Israeli forces, while others remain under debris. “Israel ”

Hamas emphasized that extracting these bodies requires specialized machinery, which the Israeli regime has obstructed from entering Gaza, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delays and obstructs efforts to access the bodies.

A ceasefire agreement was reached following indirect negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, with a formal signing involving US President Donald Trump and heads of state from over 20 countries.

The first phase of this ceasefire includes a complete halt to hostilities, withdrawal of Israeli troops, and humanitarian aid access.

He also highlighted that one indication of this is Israel’s refusal to allow specialized teams and equipment into Gaza to recover bodies trapped under rubble.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas announced that retrieving the bodies of Israeli soldiers could be time-consuming, as some are buried in tunnels destroyed by Israeli forces, while others remain under debris. “Israel ”

Hamas emphasized that extracting these bodies requires specialized machinery, which the Israeli regime has obstructed from entering Gaza, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delays and obstructs efforts to access the bodies.

A ceasefire agreement was reached following indirect negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, with a formal signing involving US President Donald Trump and heads of state from over 20 countries.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) The Lebanese media reported that the drone attack was carried out on the Hadaya area, between Wadi Jello and Yanouh, in the Tyre district of the southern Lebanese province.

Some media outlets reported that a motorcycle was targeted in the area.

These attacks have been ongoing since the ceasefire agreement was signed on November 27, 2024, underscoring the fragile nature of the current truce and the continued threat to civilians in the south.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a rootless child-killing criminal after he baselessly described Israel as “the frontline of American civilization”.  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently claimed that Iranians “see Israel as the frontline of American civilization here in the Middle East.”

Writing on his X account, Larijani late on Monday reacted to Netanyahu’s baseless comments.

“When a rootless child-killing criminal like Netanyahu calls himself the frontline of American civilization, you can’t blame Americans if they feel like suicide,” Larijani noted.

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