TEHRAN (Tasnim) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed a five-member panel to investigate Israeli attacks on UN shelters during the Gaza war. The inquiry led by retired Dutch general Patrick Cammaert will "review and investigate a number of specific incidents in which death or injuries occurred at, and/or damage was done to United Nations premises,...

[caption id="attachment_113490" align="alignright" width="167"] Palestinian men look on as a bomb from an Israeli air strike hits a house in Gaza City on August 23, 2014. Photo by AFP[/caption] A human rights group says Israel must be held accountable for using captured Palestinians as human shields during its summer 2014 military aggression against ...

An Iran judiciary officialhas confirmed the arrestof Jason Rezaian, The Washington Posts correspondent in Tehran. Rezaian was detained on Thursday with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and two freelance journalists. SeeIran Feature: Tehran Detains 3 Journalists, Including Washington Posts Rezaian The head of the judiciarys Tehran Province Office, Gholam ...

[caption id="attachment_119402" align="alignright" width="224"] Israeli soldiers look toward the Gaza Strip from Israel, August 3, 2014. Photo by Reuters[/caption] In three separate incidents, soldiers were found with their guns beside them. Three soldiers who fought in this summerswar in the Gaza Striphave committed suicide over the last month. In ...

[caption id="attachment_119394" align="alignright" width="225"] The town of Sderot was largely closed for business over the summer due to constant rocket fire. Photo by Eliyahu Hershkowitz[/caption] New figures show sharp declines in hotel stays, exports, retail sales and new-home purchases. The 50 days ofOperation Protective Edgeover the summer ...

The United States has heavily criticized the president of Palestinian National Unity Government for his speech at the 2014 United Nations General Assembly. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement on Friday that Mahmud Abbas speech, in which he said Israel conducted a war of genocide in Gaza, was offensive. Israel unleashed aerial ...

[caption id="attachment_117266" align="alignright" width="240"] Palestinian students walk past houses that were destroyed by the Israeli offensive, as they make their way to the first day of the new school year in the east of Gaza City September 14, 2014. Photo by Reuters[/caption] Even if we put aside the moral blindness in Israel, which wasnt shocked ...

[caption id="attachment_116590" align="alignright" width="236"] Palestinian students sit inside their school that witnesses said was shelled by Israel during its offensive, on the first day of the new school year in the east of Gaza City. September 14, 2014. Photo by Reuters[/caption] The Palestinian Ministry of Education says the latest Israeli war ...

[caption id="attachment_116867" align="alignright" width="258"] Binyamin Netanyahu condemned the refuseniks at the International cyber-security conference in Tel Aviv on Sunday. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA[/caption] Moshe Ya'alon joins political and military leadership in attack on reservists who refuse to serve in Palestinian territories Forty-...

[caption id="attachment_116684" align="alignright" width="231"] Palestinians in Gaza celebrate a permanent ceasefire between Palestinian resistance groups and Israel, August 26, 2014.[/caption] Deputy secretary general of Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, says Irans support for the Palestinian resistance was instrumental in its victory against ...

[caption id="attachment_116590" align="alignright" width="232"] Palestinian students sit inside their school that witnesses said was shelled by Israel during its offensive, on the first day of the new school year in the east of Gaza City. September 14, 2014. Photo by Reuters[/caption] First week of instruction will be devoted to psychological counseling ...

[caption id="attachment_115922" align="alignright" width="243"] Palestinians offer their prayers over the grave of a member of the al-Batsh family. Gaza City on Sunday, July 13, 2014. Photo by AP[/caption] Military prosecutor orders the investigate police unit to look into cases of alleged misconduct and breach of international war, decides against ...

President Rouhanihas responded defiantlytoday to the expanded US blacklist, We are not afraid of sanctions. The government has handled the affairs despite sanctions. Sanction is oppression and aggression against the rights of the Iranian nation. It is our duty to put the aggressors in their place. The USunveiled a new set of sanctionsagainst ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Iran's Basij (volunteer) force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi stressed that the crimes committed by the so-called liberal democracy in different parts of the world, specially in the region, are worst than the crimes of Adolf Hitler. The victory of people in Gaza invalidated the liberal democracy camp, Naqdi said ...

Israeli soldiers have demolished several Palestinian houses near East al-Quds (Jerusalem), leaving dozens of Palestinians homeless. Locals say the latest demolitions took place on Thursday, when the Israeli troops raided the Sheikh Anbar neighborhood in the village of Zuayyim, without prior notice. Witnesses said the Israeli forces destroyed the ...

[caption id="attachment_109458" align="alignright" width="260"] Commander of Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari stressed the need for enhancing the defense capability of the Palestinian resistance ...

[caption id="attachment_113955" align="alignright" width="263"] This file photo shows Israeli soldiers resting in an area near central Gaza during the recent war on the besieged Palestinian territory.[/caption] A recent survey shows that a majority of Israelis believe the Tel Aviv regime did not manage to achieve victory in its latest military aggression ...

Tehran, Aug 28, IRNA - Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani on Thursday felicitated Palestinian resistance leaders on victory of the Gazans over the Zionist regime. Speaking with Leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shalah and Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Mashal in separate telephone ...

[caption id="attachment_111524" align="alignright" width="253"] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif[/caption] Tehran, Aug 28, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged Palestinian resistance leaders to take the case of Zionist regime?s atrocities against Gazans to international courts. Zarif made the remarks Wednesday night while ...

A United Nations (UN) humanitarian aid convoy carrying food for about 150,000 people has arrived at the Gaza Strip, a first such arrival since Israel imposed its blockade on the Palestinian enclave in 2007. On Wednesday, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) convoy entered the Rafah crossing through Alexandria, Egypt. The opening of the Rafah crossing ...