Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks in a meeting with representatives of parties and popular establishments in Tehran on April 6, 2025. (Photo by president.ir)

President Masoud Pezeshkian has once again said Iran is open to talks but this does not mean it will hold negotiations “at any cost.”

“We do not seek war, unrest and nuclear bomb. We seek negotiations but the Americans must also prove that they seek negotiations,” Pezeshkian said on Sunday.

He added that Iran believes in negotiations but will not submit to any humiliation.

"But the issue of negotiations with the United States is different,” the president said.

He added that Iran cannot negotiate with the US by the time that Washington is exerting all-out pressure and posing mounting pressure to Tehran.

As per a religious decree (fatwa) issued by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran has no intention to use its nuclear capabilities for non-peaceful purposes, the president emphasized.

He pointed to his recent phone calls with leaders of all regional countries on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr and noted that Iran’s relations with these states have been far improved in comparison with the past.

In contradictory messaging, US President Donald Trump called on Tehran to hold direct negotiations on its nuclear program while threatening to bomb Iran if diplomacy fails.

On March 30, Trump threatened Iran with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.

Iran has stressed time and again that it will not sit at the negotiating table with the US administration as long as Trump continues his pressure campaign against Tehran.

On Saturday, Pezeshkian criticized the language of threat against Tehran, saying the country is willing to engage in negotiations “on equal footing.”

“The Islamic Republic of Iran seeks dialogue on equal footing. They threaten Iran on one hand and seek to hold negotiations on the other,” he added.

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By Humaira Ahad

“God is our guardian while they have none,” a devastated father said in a graphic video as he held the tiny, headless body of his infant killed in an Israeli bombardment on a UNRWA clinic for displaced people in Jabalia, northern Gaza, on April 2.

The strike killed 19 people, nine of them children, raising the toll of child victims of the ongoing genocide that began in October 2023 and continues unabated nearly 19 months on.

In October 2023, the United Nations regarded Gaza as a graveyard for children. The death toll at that time was 3,450. Now, the number of children killed in Gaza stands at nearly 19,000, according to the official data. The unofficial figure is much higher.

Among the Palestinian children killed in Gaza, at least 274 were newborn babies, and at least 876 were infants below the age of one year, Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas said in a statement on the eve of Palestinian Children’s Day on Saturday, marked on April 5 every year.

Over 1,100 children have been abducted, and “around 39,000 have been orphaned by losing one or both parents, while thousands of others face the threat of famine, malnutrition, and disease,” the resistance group noted.

After a two-month ceasefire, which was marked by multiple breaches, the child-killing regime renewed its assault on innocent children in the besieged strip last month.

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, in a post on X, formerly Twitter, warned that the resumption of the war on Gaza is “robbing” Palestinian children of their childhood, turning the besieged territory into a “no land” for children.

Israel continued its bombardment even on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, murdering Palestinian children who were excited to celebrate the festival after nearly two years of genocide.

Videos circulating on social media showed the lifeless bodies of children in new clothes and shoes. They had anticipated a day of festivities after the culmination of the month of fasting.

“Harrowing,” the UNRWA chief wrote on X. “At least 100 children are reported killed or injured every day in Gaza since the strikes resumed,” he said, citing UNICEF figures.

“Nothing justifies the killing of children.”

On Palestinian Children’s Day, Hamas called for the prosecution of Israel’s leaders for war crimes as the regime's genocidal war on Gaza continues with “systematic targeting of children.

Recently, a 350 GB file was released documenting Israel’s genocidal crimes in the besieged strip. The file consists of around 70,000 videos and images of Israel that show the regime mostly targets children ages 0-9 and women in the besieged coastal territory. The footage aligns perfectly with the figures released by the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics statement, issued on April 3, at least 17,954 children have been killed in the Zionist regime’s attacks on the besieged strip, including 274 newborn babies and 876 infants below the age of one year.

The Palestinian Health Ministry recently released a 1,516-page document listing the names of over 50,000 Palestinians confirmed killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. There are a total of 474 pages listing 15,600+ children’s names.

On the first 27 pages, the age is listed as 0, which means the children killed were less than 1 year old. At least 274 newborn babies and 876 babies who were not yet old enough to celebrate their first birthday were murdered by the Zionist regime.

According to the data provided by Palestinian rights organizations, Israel kills a child in Gaza every 45 minutes. That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 545 days.

Press TV correspondent in northern Gaza, Abubaker Abed, in a dispatch on Saturday, said his cousin's child was killed in an Israeli drone strike, adding that they are facing a tragedy that knows no bounds.

“I am the mourner, I am the griever”

Press TV's correspondent in Gaza @AbubakerAbedW reports that his cousin and he cousin's child were killed in an Israeli drone strike, saying that Gazans are facing a tragedy that doesn't know any things.

Israel’s renewed offensive in the besieged Palestinian strip has resulted in the cold-blooded murder of more than 350 children in less than two weeks.

According to a UNICEF statement issued on March 31, Israel has reportedly left at least 322 children dead and 609 wounded in the Palestinian territory in the past 10 days.

The figures include children who were reportedly killed or wounded when the surgical department of Al Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza, was hit in an attack on March 23, the United Nations children's agency said in a statement.

UNICEF said most of these children were displaced and sheltering in makeshift tents or damaged homes.

Ending a nearly two-month fragile ceasefire, Israel resumed intense bombing of Gaza on March 18, followed by a new ground offensive. 

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the devastating Israeli airstrike on Gaza in the early hours of March 18 killed at least 436 Palestinians, including 183 children, 94 women,

Mohammed was one of the 183 children killed in Israel's renewed bombardment of Gaza. His mother was also killed in the attack.

"She was seven months pregnant when she was killed,” Alaa Abu Hilal, Muhammad’s grief-stricken father, said.

Karam Tafeek Hameid lost his three sons in the Israeli attack on March 18. Hassan was nine, Mohammad was eight, and Aziz was just five.

"They used to play around, have fun, and most of all they loved to ride with me on my tuk-tuk," Hameid was quoted as saying amid sobs. Like other children, they had dreams; they “wanted to become doctors, teachers," the devastated father added.

Dr. Sakib Rokadiya, a British volunteer surgeon at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, said that he was shocked to see the number of children being targeted by Israel.

Dr Morgan McMonagle, an Irish trauma surgeon who is volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, estimated that 40 percent of the dead and injured he saw were children.

The UN Children and Armed Conflict reports show that the number of Palestinian children killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza and the occupied West Bank over the last year is five times more than the number of children killed in Gaza between 2005 and 2022 in total. 

The record number of women and children killed in Gaza does not include nearly 20,000 people who are either unidentified, missing, or entombed beneath rubble. Last year, a study published in The Lancet estimated the true number of deaths in Gaza could be over 186,000 and may include scores of children.

In its statement on April 5, Hamas urged “the United Nations and governments to criminalize the occupation (Israel) and activate its inclusion on the 'List of Shame' for perpetrators of crimes against children.”

Activists place children's shoes along a street in Washington DC to symbolize the 17,400+ Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

On the eve of Palestinian Children’s Day on April 3, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 39,384 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents in Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged strip.

As per the statistics given by the bureau, around 17,000 children have been deprived of both parents in Israel’s genocidal war.

In January, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that since the start of the regime's war on Gaza, 32,151 children have lost their fathers, and 4,417 lost their mothers. However, the figures have increased in the past few months.

“These children are living in tragic conditions, with many forced to take refuge in torn tents or destroyed homes, in a near-total absence of social care and psychological support,” the statement noted. “The Gaza Strip is suffering from the largest orphan crisis in modern history.”

The statistics bureau warned that 60,000 children are at risk of death due to severe levels of malnutrition and looming famine.

In a report published last month, the Government Media Office in Palestine said that the Israeli occupying forces in Gaza have directly targeted 26 soup kitchens and bombed over 37 aid distribution centers since the beginning of the genocidal war on the coastal strip.

Israel has also tightened its brutal siege against Palestinians for nearly a month, blocking the entry of humanitarian and relief aid - including vital fuel trucks needed to maintain the bare minimum for survival in Gaza.

The Zionist regime has blocked 16,800 humanitarian aid trucks and 1,400 fuel trucks (diesel and cooking gas) from entering Gaza since the beginning of March, employing inhumane methods of warfare against helpless Palestinians.

Earlier this week, Gaza’s Government Media Office said that the Israeli regime is applying a policy of “systematic starvation” by halting the entry of aid and flour for an entire month, forcing bakeries to shut down. Paper signs now hang in bakeries, reading “Closed until further notice.”

The lives of scores of children who have lost everything in Israel’s genocidal war have been reduced to finding firewood and flour or anything to eat. A childhood that calls for play and a carefree life without fear is spent in hospitals, ration lines, and graveyards for the children in Gaza.

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The Israeli regime has killed another Palestinian journalist, as well as her husband and son, during an airstrike that targeted their home in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Islam Nasr al-Din Muqaddad is the 254th journalist or media worker killed by the Israeli regime since October 7. She is the 127th journalist killed while being at home.

She is also the second journalist murdered along with their family in their home during an Israeli airstrike in April. Last Tuesday, the Israeli regime killed journalist Mohammed Al-Bardaweel and his family in their apartment in Khan Younis.

According to a report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs’ Costs of War Project, published on April 1, the Israeli regime’s brutal attitude towards Palestinian journalists has made the war in Gaza the deadliest conflict for media workers ever recorded.

“It is, quite simply, the worst ever conflict for reporters,” said the Costs of War.

The murder of Palestinian journalists during the war in Gaza, where Israel has granted no access to foreign correspondents, has exacerbated a trend where local reporters, who are “underpaid and under-resourced,” face the greatest risks to report on the war, the Costs of War said.

“Across the globe, the economics of the industry, the violence of war, and coordinated censorship campaigns are turning more conflict zones into news graveyards, with Gaza being the most extreme example,” the Costs of War said.

The Israeli regime has repeatedly accused Palestinian journalists of being secret Hamas operatives, a claim the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has categorically denied.

The CPJ says Israel has used this excuse against Palestinian journalists without evidence to justify their killing or mistreatment.

“The Israeli army has killed more journalists in 10 weeks than any other army or entity has in any single year,” said Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator.

Since October 7, 2023, when the Israeli regime began its genocidal war in Gaza, it has killed over 50,000 people, most of whom are women and children.

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Iran’s foreign minister has dismissed direct talks with the United States as “meaningless” given Washington’s threats to use force against the country, reiterating Tehran’s openness to diplomacy and indirect negotiations.

Abbas Araghchi made the remarks during a ceremony on Saturday, two days after US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran is willing to engage in direct talks with his administration.

Trump has repeatedly threatened military action against Iran and sent a letter to the country, to which he has received a response.

Araghchi said that the content and tone of Iran’s letter were in accordance with that of Trump while preserving the opportunity to use diplomacy.

“Basically, direct negotiations would be meaningless with a party that constantly threatens to resort to force in violation of the UN Charter and that expresses contradictory positions from its various officials,” he added.

“However, we remain committed to diplomacy and are ready to try the path of indirect negotiations.”

The top diplomat also touched on the US’s unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, despite Iran’s voluntary measures to assure the peaceful nature of its nuclear program.

The Islamic Republic, he emphasized, is now ready to pursue talks on its nuclear activities in return for the removal of cruel anti-Iran sanctions as a trust-building step.

“While adhering to the path of diplomacy and dialogue to resolve misunderstandings and rifts, Iran keeps itself prepared for all possible or probable events,” Araghchi said.

“Just as it (Iran) is serious in diplomacy and negotiations, it will also be decisive and serious in defending its national interests and sovereignty.”

Additionally, in his remarks, the Iranian foreign minister underlined the need for cooperation between countries to end the suffering of the oppressed Palestinian people amid Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip and stop the regime’s aggression against Lebanon and Syria.

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has criticized the language of threat against Tehran, saying the country is willing to engage in negotiations “on equal footing.”

“The Islamic Republic of Iran seeks dialogue on equal footing. They threaten Iran on one hand and seek to hold negotiations on the other,” Pezeshkian said on Saturday.

“If you seek negotiations, then why are you making threats? Today, the United States not only humiliates Iran but also the world, and this behavior contradicts the request for dialogue,” he added.

Pezeshkian’s remark came after US President Donald Trump called on Tehran to hold direct negotiations on its nuclear program while threatening to bomb Iran if diplomacy fails.

On Sunday, Trump once again threatened Iran with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program, and the United States has moved additional warplanes into the region.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday reiterated Tehran’s readiness to take part in indirect negotiations with the United States over its peaceful nuclear program, warning that US threats are “complicating” the current situation.

“The Islamic Republic, as in the past, is ready for real negotiations from an equal position and indirectly,” Araghchi added. He stressed that this “requires a constructive atmosphere and the avoidance of approaches based on threats, intimidation and blackmail.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, Pezeshkian said it is imperative to improve Iran’s interaction with other countries on regional and international developments.

He stressed the importance of fostering consensus and unity in the country and said the settlement of internal disputes would thwart foreign conspiracies.

"If we set aside our internal disputes and embrace unity, the enemy will not covet us, and we will also be able to solve the people's problems,” the Iranian president emphasized.

He noted that all Iranians must join hands and make efforts to solve their woes.

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Quran Window 

Allah Almighty said:

“So she brought him to her people, carrying him. They said, ‘O Mary, you have certainly done a thing unprecedented.’”

[Maryam: 27]

? Supplication Window ?

O Allah, I declare my innocence before You on this day of mine and on the Sundays that follow it. From polytheism and atheism, and I dedicate my supplication to You sincerely, seeking an answer, and I persevere in Your obedience, hoping for reward. So, bless Muhammad, the best of Your creation, the caller to Your truth. Honor me with Your glory that cannot be wronged, and protect me with Your eye that never sleeps. End my affair with turning to You and my life with forgiveness. Indeed, You are the Forgiving, the Merciful.

? Window of Remembrance ?

The Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, said:

Take Treat your enemy with kindness, for that is more likely to lead to victory.

Bahr al-Anwar, Vol. 74, p. 230

?‍?‍?‍? Window of Education ?‍?‍?‍?

❌ Parenting Mistakes ❌

Seventh - Over-Attention:

Giving our only child or one with a chronic illness excessive attention leads to the child rebelling against their parents, until the child becomes the one controlling them.

? Window of Light ?

Always remember that no one is better than you. Everyone has their share of problems and failures, and life takes its toll on everyone.

? Window of Thought ?

Complaining is the common language of humanity.

? Naguib Mahfouz 

Israeli forces killed the second Doctors Without Borders (MSF) worker in Gaza in two weeks, bringing the total death toll to 11 since the war began 18 months ago. 

According to MSF, Hussam Al-Loulu, 58, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday in southwest Deir Al-Balah alongside his wife and 28-year-old daughter, leaving behind two sons.

Al-Loulu joined MSF in December as a security guard at the organization’s emergency unit in Khan Younis.

“Our colleague Hussam was killed along with hundreds of others across the Gaza Strip since the resumption of attacks by Israeli forces on 18 March,” MSF said.

Last week, the regime killed another member of MSF, Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal, in his apartment building in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, during an airstrike.

On March 18, the Israeli regime resumed its genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, breaking a two-month-old ceasefire deal with the Hamas resistance movement.

At least 1,249 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed large-scale strikes on the narrow Strip after abandoning the ceasefire. The number of people injured since the Israeli attacks restarted now stands at 3,022.

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the overall death toll in Gaza has reached 50,609 since the war began on October 7, 2023. The number of people injured in Gaza since that date stands at 115,063.

‘Slow death’

The month-long total siege imposed by Israel has exacerbated the humanitarian crisis, barring the entry of essential aid such as food, fuel, and medical supplies.

MSF has warned that the siege of Gaza means the majority of critical medications are in short supply or running out, putting Palestinians at risk of losing vital healthcare.

The Israeli regime’s continuation of the siege and bombardment of Gaza has deprived Palestinians of basic needs, including food, medicines, and water, which eventually leads to widespread deaths and health complications, MSF said.

“The Israeli authorities have condemned the people of Gaza to unbearable suffering with their deadly siege,” said Myriam Laaroussi, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza.

“This deliberate infliction of harm on people is like a slow death; it must end immediately,” she emphasized.

According to MSF, the siege has forced hospitals and medical centers to ration medications such as pain killers, provide less effective treatment, or turn patients away.

Hospitals and medical centers have run out of surgical supplies such as anesthetics, pediatric antibiotics, and medicines for chronic conditions like epilepsy, hypertension, and diabetes, MSF reports.

MSF has reiterated its call for a ceasefire agreement. “This bloodshed must stop,” MSF said.

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At least 100 Palestinian children have been killed or injured by the Israeli military each day in Gaza since the Zionist regime broke the ceasefire on March 18, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.

UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini, in a post on X, formerly Twitter, warned that the resumption of the war on Gaza is “robbing” Palestinian children of their childhood, turning the besieged territory into a “no land” for children.

“Harrowing,” Lazzarini wrote on X. “At least 100 children are reported killed or injured every day in Gaza since the strikes resumed,” he said, citing UNICEF figures. “Nothing justifies the killing of children.”

He lamented that “young lives” were being “cut short in a war not of children’s making,” calling for renewed efforts to protect Gaza’s youngest civilians by resuming the ceasefire.

He noted that since the war began on October 7, 2023, 15,000 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip.

“The resumption of the war is again robbing them of their childhood. The war has turned Gaza into a “no land” for children. This is a stain on our common humanity,” he warned.

According to the UNICEF, since Israel resumed its war on Gaza nearly 20 days ago, 322 Palestinian children have been killed and 609 injured.

The world’s agency for children and their rights said in a statement on Monday that one million children in Gaza are suffering from continuous bombardment and the worsening humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by Israel’s ongoing blockade of aid into the narrow Strip.

At least 1,249 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed large-scale strikes on the war-torn territory after breaking the ceasefire on March 18, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The number of injured since the Israeli attacks restarted now stands at 3,022, it also said.

According to the ministry, the figures include 86 people killed in the past 24 hours and 287 wounded.

The ministry also reports that the overall death toll in Gaza has reached 50,609 since the war began on October 7, 2023. The number of people injured in Gaza since that date stands at 115,063. 

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An autopsy has revealed that a Palestinian minor has been starved to death in an Israeli detention facility.

The 17-year-old abductee, identified as Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad, was a resident of Silwad town and died at Megiddo Prison in late March, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) reported on Thursday.

According to the DCIP, Ahmad died of what were likely signs of “starvation, dehydration from colitis-induced diarrhea, and infectious complications all compounded by prolonged malnutrition and denial of life-saving medical intervention.”

The autopsy reveals considerable air accumulation in both the chest and abdominal cavities of Ahmad, which, according to DCIP, was “likely caused by blunt trauma.”

Additionally, there are indications of inflammation that may be associated with an infection.

The presence of edema and congestion in his large intestine, indicative of a traumatic injury, may be attributed to beatings inflicted by Israeli guards, it added.

The examination, carried out at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, revealed that Ahmad experienced “extreme, likely prolonged malnutrition” and may have had an inflamed colon, which led to recurrent diarrhea and dehydration. Additionally, a laceration was discovered on his neck.

According to Ahmad’s father, Israeli authorities subjected the Palestinian teenager to “beatings, starvation, and medical neglect during his time in custody.”

“An autopsy report showed that he had lost a significant amount of weight, developed scabies and infections, and had fallen unconscious before his death,” he stated, adding, “Israel is deliberately killing child detainees.”

“Walid had no prior health issues. He was starved, left untreated, and ultimately killed.”

He added that Walid’s death could have been prevented had he received proper medical attention and food.

The 17-year-old was also a Brazilian citizen, which prompted officials and civil organizations in Brazil to follow his case closely. 

The Palestinian Arab Federation of Brazil (Fepal) said in a statement that Walid’s death in the Israeli prison of Meggido makes it “completely untenable” to keep diplomatic ties between Brazil and Israel.

“Perhaps it’s time for [Brazilian] Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira to review the very mild statement he gave on October 23, 2024, when he said that breaking ties with the genociders of Tel Aviv ‘was not under consideration,’” read the Fepal statement.

Fepal emphasized that the time for diplomacy has been “buried” by Israel and demanded that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva take a new stance towards the administration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The statement also highlighted that breaking diplomatic ties and cooperation agreements with Israel “is a moral and legal obligation Brazil has with humanity, with the Palestinian people facing a final solution and with the Brazilian-Palestinian community, under penalty of going down in history as an actor accused of complicity in the Palestinian Holocaust.”

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The Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree

The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) have carried out a military operation targeting an Israeli military site in the occupied city of Yafa using a domestically developed "Yaffa" drone, and have shot down a "Giant Shark F360" reconnaissance drone in Sa’daa Governorate. 

In a statement on Friday, the YAF said that the retaliatory operation targeting Tel Aviv was conducted in response to the continued Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the daily massacres of Palestinians carried out with American support.

In a separate development, YAF air defenses shot down a Giant Shark F360 reconnaissance drone operated by the “American-Israeli enemy” while it was conducting missions over Yemen’s northern Sa’daa Governorate.

The drone was downed using a domestically produced surface-to-air missile, according to the statement.

The Yemeni forces also issued a call to action, urging "all free people of the nation" to stand against the Israeli genocidal war on Palestinians, warning of the risks of inaction and the potential expansion of Israeli aggression into other Arab and Islamic nations.

"The consequences of silence, inaction, and failure to fulfill one's religious, moral, and humanitarian duties will be dire for all,” the statement read.

The YAF also pledged to continue operations until the Israeli regime halts its assault and lifts the siege on the Gaza Strip.

Earlier in the day, the YAF conducted a retaliatory operation against US warships in the Red Sea, including the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, thwarting two planned strikes against Yemen. 

YAF spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree confirmed the attacks, saying they were in direct response to recent US airstrikes on Yemen.

Brigadier General Saree noted that the operation, “the second in the past 24 hours,” thwarted two planned US aerial attacks against Yemen.

He stressed Yemen's readiness to counter further escalation and vowed that pro-Palestinian operations would continue until Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza ends.

Gaza's health authorities have reported that the death toll from the US-backed Israeli genocidal campaign has surpassed 50,609, with more than 115,000 others injured. Since mid-March alone, Israeli strikes have killed 1,249 Palestinians.

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