(Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated on Saturday that Israel is committing “shameless crimes” towards youngsters, not combatants.
His feedback got here a day after an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killed not less than 31 individuals, together with three youngsters and 7 ladies, in response to the Lebanese well being ministry.
Friday’s strike, which in response to a supply focused a constructing subsequent to a nursery, was the deadliest in a 12 months of battle between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah militia.
It adopted two days of assaults wherein pagers and walkie-talkies utilized by Hezbollah members exploded. Lebanon blamed the assaults on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement.
Khamenei stated Israel was not even hiding its completely different types of “shameless crimes” in Gaza, the West Financial institution, Lebanon and Syria.
It’s not combating “preventing males, however peculiar individuals,” Khamenei instructed a bunch of envoys from Muslim nations in Tehran in remarks broadcast on state TV.
“Unable to harm the true fighters in Palestine, they’re venting their malicious anger on young children, on hospital sufferers, and on colleges crammed with younger youngsters.”
Additionally on Saturday, in a present of power, Iran unveiled its “Jihad” single-stage liquid-fuel ballistic missile with a high-explosive removable warhead and a variety of 1,000 km, in response to state TV.
The missiles had been displayed, together with different navy {hardware}, throughout a parade marking the anniversary of the beginning of the 1980-88 conflict with Iraq.
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