Press TV's news headlines

US-Israeli Gaza genocide

Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip are enduring a bloody night as the Israeli military escalates its attacks across the war-ravaged territory. In one of the deadliest strikes, over 20 Palestinians were killed and many others wounded in a raid on a school sheltering displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. A number of Palestinians were also killed after Israeli warplanes bombed a residential building west of the City. Separate Israeli strikes killed two civilians and injured several others in Gaza City’s Al-Karama neighborhood, and Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza. Another strike on Deir al-Balah killed five members of a displaced family, including two children. The Israeli artillery fire also hit several areas across Gaza, including the town of Bani Suheila, near the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, causing multiple fatalities. According to Gaza officials, the death toll from the U-S-Israeli genocide since October 2023 is approaching 53,940, with nearly 122,800 others injured.

Israel global isolation

Spain has called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo on Israel, and take immediate action to stop the regime's aggression against Gaza. The country’s foreign minister warned that silence in the face of Israel’s continued killing of innocent Palestinian civilians amounts to complicity in the war. José Manuel Albares also called for the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, and further measures, including individual sanctions targeting Israeli politicians. He was addressing a high-level ministerial meeting in Madrid attended by foreign ministers from key European and Arab nations, including the Palestinian Prime Minister. Albares condemned the war in Gaza as unjustifiable, describing Israel’s actions as effectively turning the territory into a vast graveyard. He reaffirmed Spain’s commitment to ending the war, and urged all UN member states to speak out against Israel’s blockade of Gaza, which is preventing humanitarian aid from reaching its people.

France anti-Iran allegation

Iran’s foreign minister has strongly slammed recent anti-Iranian remarks by his French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot. Abbas Araghchi said French officials have no moral authority whatsoever to lecture Iranians on human rights. The top diplomat criticized France’s own human rights record, saying Paris has made many violations in this area, which undermine its credibility as a human rights advocate. He added that no example illustrates this hypocrisy more clearly than France’s stance on Israel and its war crimes. Araghchi’s comments came after earlier on Sunday the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the French envoy in protest at Barrot’s remarks. After an Iranian filmmaker won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Barrot described the movie as a gesture of resistance against oppression. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the French government used the film festival to promote its political agenda against the Islamic Republic.

Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:

www.presstv.ir