White House says Israel’s plan to improve aid flow into Gaza must now be ‘fully and rapidly implemented’
Iran held a funeral on Friday for seven officers killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Syria this week, an unprecedented attack for which Tehran has vowed to take revenge. The funeral coincided with the annual Quds Day, during which Iran stages large state-sponsored pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel rallies nationwide.
State television showed demonstrators carrying pictures of those killed and banners with slogans such as “Death to Israel” and “Death to America”, Reuters reports. The leader of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, Ziad al-Nakhala, took part in the rally in Tehran, Iranian media reported.
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