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Israeli disinformation campaign 

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has lashed out at Israeli media for launching a campaign of fabricated stories regarding casualties in recent terrorist attacks in Iran. In a social media post, the ministry’s spokesman said Israeli media are running a Hitler-fashioned campaign of big lies, disinformation, and false narratives against the Iranian nation. Esmaeil Baghaei cited a viral video in which a Hebrew-speaking woman debunks Israeli reports that she was killed during Iran's riots. Israel’s Channel 12 had broadcast the woman’s photo, claiming she was killed in Iran. The woman, identified as Noya Zion, said she was alive and safe at home, and that she never visited Iran. Baghaei said the incident demonstrates how fake characters are posthumously recruited in the service of Israel’s ‘rule of lies’. Iran has repeatedly criticized Western media outlets for circulating mass-scale false reports regarding casualties in the recent terrorist attacks. According to an official report, 3,117 people were killed in those attacks, including over 2,400 civilians and security personnel.

Israel war on education 

The UN agency for children has strongly slammed Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip’s education sector, saying the regime’s strikes have placed an entire generation at risk. UNICEF warned that sixty percent of school-age children in Gaza are currently not receiving in-person education. The world body noted that ninety percent of Gaza’s schools have been damaged or destroyed. It said before the war, Palestinians in Gaza had some of the highest literacy rates in the world, but that legacy is now under severe attack. UNICEF said Israel’s attacks have destroyed schools, universities, and libraries, and erased years of progress. The agency stressed that this is not only physical destruction, but an assault on the future itself. It said returning children to education is an immediate priority, even through tents and community centers, because they cannot wait for permanent buildings to be constructed. According to the latest UN assessment, based on satellite imagery, at least 97 percent of Gaza’s schools have been damage in Israel’s attacks.

Trump administration sued

Family members of two men killed in a US missile strike on a boat that was traveling from Venezuela have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration. They assert that the two men were murdered in a "manifestly unlawful" military campaign targeting civilian vessels. The lawsuit has been filed by civil rights lawyers in Boston's federal court, marking the first court challenge to one of the 36 US missile strikes on vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The strikes, which were authorized by Trump, have killed at least 126 people since September. Family members of two Trinidadian men, who were among six killed in October, say they did fishing and farm work in Venezuela, and were returning to their homes when they were attacked. The lawsuit describes the attack as totally unjustifiable killing by an administration that has claimed the right to abuse executive power with impunity. The lawsuit demands accountability and defense of the rule of law. While the Trump administration claims its operations targeted narco-terrorists, critics have questioned their legality and morality, and have condemned them as "extrajudicial" killings.

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